St. Luke's United Methodist Church | Sally Penning | Activity https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/members/sally/activity/ Activity feed for Sally Penning. Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:23:50 -0600 https://buddypress.org/?v=12.0.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 58940927939727a3d025df404329b19c Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=82257 Thu, 15 Dec 2022 22:26:36 -0600 Trust that God will still love you exquisitely, especially as you claim time to be still today.

 

]]> 9ebe795a65a89f78c275e0692ecd421a Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=68757 Fri, 19 Nov 2021 15:10:35 -0600 God,

Yes, the holiday season is upon us. I pray that I experience it to be what the word indicates – a holy day season. Tune my heart and mind, ears and eyes to all things holy. Blur the lines for me betw […]

]]> 8d5010a3ff6d057d3b6651deef6d4c8f Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=67400 Fri, 08 Oct 2021 15:35:40 -0500 God,

You have blessed me in so many ways. And yet, in spite of those many blessings, I am too often preoccupied with my own concerns. I wonder how I can accomplish the tasks of the day, solve my own problems, a […]

]]> d701f26acd9bc20fa411ef5fa0697d63 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=64788 Fri, 23 Jul 2021 11:00:54 -0500 Dear God,

I want to be an open-minded person, ready to listen to the opinions of others, willing to change my mind when I am wrong. On the other hand, I don’t want to be a people pleaser, just saying what pe […]

]]> 4eb124bc9ee3fca09a847791cd251634 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=64595 Fri, 16 Jul 2021 14:09:07 -0500 God,

Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it’s off to work I go.

Today, there are things for me to accomplish, tasks to check off the list.

I confess that there are days I feel like Sisyphus, pushing a rock up a hill o […]

]]> 48838456c3d476fea480c6546fb7882c Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=64510 Mon, 12 Jul 2021 19:43:56 -0500 One hot and sunny morning in early June my husband, Brian and I met with a small group of like minded individuals in the kitchen of the Gethsemane Church campus. We all came from different walks of life, […]

]]> b6740f8cce18eae449536994d05d3fc4 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=63101 Fri, 11 Jun 2021 14:48:53 -0500 God,

“Have I told you lately that I love you? Well, darling, I’m telling you now.” My mom used to sing me that song as a small child. I find myself filling my prayers to you with thanksgiving and confess […]

]]> 7b3fdc0cfdc88cf0a122abc3b299ee26 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=62886 Fri, 04 Jun 2021 15:00:57 -0500 God, how do you feel when I bring you silly questions? Do you really care if I attend my grandson’s baseball game this week or do the tasks at home I need to get done instead? Are you interested in hearing me a […]

]]> 1377fe7c7cb1b2e412d68c35e030a943 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=61789 Fri, 16 Apr 2021 13:47:47 -0500 God,
I pray for courage to speak the truth as I hear it from you.
I pray for the humility to know that it might be my own voice rather than yours I hear.
I pray for the compassion to listen to the voices of […]

]]> ccab4c35df54de1415b50edc827d2bed Sally Penning commented on the post, Remembering Rev. Bill Denham https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/remembering-rev-bill-denham/#comment-2712 Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:30:00 -0600 Laura, you and Bill opened your home and hearts to St. Luke’s. You made a large church seem very small. Bill made each of us feel like we were the most important person he knew, and we are forever grateful. We g […]

]]> 6e10621e70f87d8e06a45ec3e1912bc6 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=55271 Tue, 08 Dec 2020 20:03:35 -0600 When I say St. Luke’s is a part of my DNA, I am not exaggerating. My parents met and were married here, my siblings and I were baptized and confirmed here, and now I am a member and employee here! St. L […]

]]> 4dcfbd5e9bc2e22e98347ac522fb3fa3 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=54737 Thu, 12 Nov 2020 22:19:15 -0600 For St. Luke’s member Ron Fisher, an usher at both the 9:45 and 11 AM traditional services, our greatly admired main sanctuary was truly a “family affair”.  Ron’s father Louis and uncle Fred co-owned Fisher C […]

]]> e688cab7bbb7c7080ae66d1b7c157a8a Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=54734 Thu, 12 Nov 2020 22:14:10 -0600 The year was 2008. It was late summer, and I had just finished taking the Bar Exam when I got a call. “How would you feel about being my ‘consigliere’?” It was Rev. Justin Coleman. Rev. Coleman had been a […]

]]> cf3889567a986ede3bdf50c049ceb937 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=54613 Mon, 09 Nov 2020 14:34:19 -0600 I will never forget a sermon illustration Dr. James W. Moore preached from the St. Luke’s pulpit. He reported a true event that occurred in his sister’s church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The pastor arr […]

]]> 28eb353e5859c947e888690ee1f502f8 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=54610 Mon, 09 Nov 2020 14:16:14 -0600

]]> 54fcfc3e7aa1634fc8f2ede94744c49e Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=54479 Mon, 02 Nov 2020 17:00:27 -0600 I have over 32 years of fond St. Luke’s memories.  The beginning of my St. Luke’s experience was marrying my wife, Anne in the chapel in 1989, which seems like just a few years ago. Hard to believe I have live […]

]]> a7b0ba15b9b334e115003be7adcd174b Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=54350 Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:17:52 -0500 It was the summer of 1957. My Mom and Dad had heard about an organist/teacher by the name of Bob Bennett. He was the organist at St. Luke’s Methodist Church. They contacted him and Mom drove me to the church on a […]

]]> d168f55088bc27e7a1b321822b1ffbf5 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=54227 Mon, 19 Oct 2020 18:23:12 -0500 In 1988 I moved from Austin to Houston to join Vinson & Elkins (“V&E”) as an associate. You could say I found my church home at St. Luke’s through V&E.  While I was a summer associate there, Randy and Ann Smith […]

]]> e8c6ebf1a71acca8e42383b6c598a496 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=54048 Mon, 12 Oct 2020 18:43:26 -0500

]]> 9c1698b5e9683f8819f05da1a4f08c0c Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=53884 Mon, 05 Oct 2020 16:22:12 -0500

]]> 8ba2ec5b704c96be59ab2fde47c1dc80 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=53883 Mon, 05 Oct 2020 15:09:44 -0500 I was made aware of St. Luke’s Church when I met Joe Blanton, my husband to be. The St. Luke’s family was holding services in the auditorium of Lamar Senior High School. On one of our dates, I accompanied Joe to […]

]]> 7d46ee386a7e17e31e90832618a48976 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=53880 Mon, 05 Oct 2020 14:58:34 -0500

]]> ea17b3ba9d87a6951127203b6dd120aa Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=53742 Mon, 28 Sep 2020 17:09:40 -0500

]]> cf9e4cf7dadef7c84b42f4f54546e7ac Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=53662 Wed, 23 Sep 2020 20:52:09 -0500

]]> 3000aca0b212c447136831eca9fec899 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=53659 Wed, 23 Sep 2020 20:45:38 -0500

]]> 994309bcb4fa643472f0ecc23216e040 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=53570 Mon, 21 Sep 2020 18:41:39 -0500

]]> 738a0ff5c4c1bbe7bfb4c0ac2f671712 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=53430 Mon, 14 Sep 2020 19:06:24 -0500 Early in my marriage, my husband and I moved to Houston from Southern California. We knew finding a church home was important and in 1991, after seeing Dr. Moore preach on TV, we decided to try St. Luke’s. We […]

]]> f3af4379cea00bc5c346d9756c9bca15 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=53220 Tue, 08 Sep 2020 13:30:23 -0500 Dear Friends,

In thinking back to my time with you at St. Luke’s, I hardly know where to begin. My friends and colleagues in the Houston early childhood community were still reeling from the sudden death of o […]

]]> 615add630d07fd62dfa49b03896a79c9 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=53148 Tue, 01 Sep 2020 18:16:36 -0500 My husband and I bought my childhood home in Bellaire from my Dad after Mom died and he decided to stay in assisted living. I had grown up at Bellaire Methodist and intended to go back there when we moved to […]

]]> 107ce824df322dd6cd8561d58ad85367 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=52958 Mon, 24 Aug 2020 15:25:36 -0500 I am from Wichita Falls, Texas and Becky is from Jennings, Louisiana. We were both raised as Methodists.  We met in Houston in 1977, where we happened to live in apartments next door to each other […]

]]> bcd61dbb14aa548d71c65546afdd3f2b Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=52908 Fri, 21 Aug 2020 13:58:08 -0500 A PERSONAL PRAYER

God,

I never really expected to become such a creature of habit. But I have come to realize that I am sort of stuck in my ways. I like my morning routine the way it has always been. I l […]

]]> 28a91a428b98fed72b8e3eabc6fc54fb Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=52839 Mon, 17 Aug 2020 20:43:30 -0500 As the daughter of a Methodist preacher, I moved around a lot.  I didn’t really have a church home.  When my husband and I found St. Luke’s I felt so blessed to have found a community to surround not only our m […]

]]> 7f311937918061adc74e262b5a045ea6 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=52838 Mon, 17 Aug 2020 20:18:52 -0500

]]> b157c541ce95f8820d76f9331dfacc60 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=52663 Tue, 11 Aug 2020 13:22:39 -0500 When I was in high school at Lamar from 1958-1961, I ended up becoming friends with a wonderful girl named Pam Fleming.  She was very popular and I was delighted that she was my friend because I was somewhat of a […]

]]> 3847c3be7b5ca90a8aa256cd6b7faba7 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=52636 Mon, 03 Aug 2020 15:36:45 -0500 I joined St. Luke’s in 1983, when I moved back to Houston from New York City to continue my career in oil and gas finance and banking.  I am profoundly grateful for the life-changing, spiritual-awakening op […]

]]> f4b573f79ef7524d7fe9bf000100056c Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=52509 Fri, 24 Jul 2020 14:13:43 -0500 1 Peter 1:3-4
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an i […]

]]> 70f1ccf062fdda359f1cde035bfa9b94 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=51932 Mon, 20 Jul 2020 16:46:52 -0500

]]> 1334b5a732daae991a1e004c29356294 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=51641 Tue, 14 Jul 2020 14:30:15 -0500

]]> c45857fdfec409203eb8a0535ca4c214 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=51715 Mon, 13 Jul 2020 14:54:41 -0500 St. Luke’s is a special place for us.  We have experienced wonderful mission trips, are involved in great small groups and have many special friends!  Through St. Luke’s we have grown and continue to grow in our f […]

]]> 757196d852cff6417054e7b3ade3ed24 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=51492 Tue, 07 Jul 2020 13:24:11 -0500 I spent my first birthday alone, but I wasn’t really alone….

]]> 9640a097af31a02ea74888e0b28e4e7b Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=51461 Mon, 06 Jul 2020 12:25:02 -0500 Isaiah 43:18-19
18 “Forget the former things;
    do not dwell on the past.
19 See, I am doing a new thing!
    Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilde […]

]]> c717070358cae49afbdcfbbc75024d16 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=51440 Sat, 04 Jul 2020 04:21:16 -0500 Luke 15:8-10
8 ‘Or what woman having ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it? 9 When she has found it, s […]

]]> 0d17dea9d882c22464d892125f7fc76b Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=51314 Mon, 29 Jun 2020 19:16:20 -0500

]]> 9c59ce5b6c6ad73598caab260e921f27 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=51228 Tue, 23 Jun 2020 15:41:18 -0500 We have had the JOY of knowing each of the senior ministers of SLUMC and each has had a positive influence on our faith journey.

Our family of four joined SLUMC in the summer of 1963, having moved to Houston […]

]]> b4addd0becfb850f02d58458a225a730 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=50468 Fri, 08 May 2020 15:10:25 -0500 A PERSONAL PRAYER

God,

I am so thankful today for all those who have loved me. Grandparents. Parents. In-laws. Amazing wife. Children. Friends. Teachers. Pastors. Youth counselors. Coaches. And I am so […]

]]> 8cb31562f48251f4530bcb2baab0feb3 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=50465 Fri, 08 May 2020 14:53:21 -0500 Psalm 132

The Eternal Dwelling of God in Zion

1 O Lord, remember in David’s favor

all the hardships he endured;

2 how he swore to the Lord

and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob,

3 “I will not en […]

]]> 549d354aea68d080c43dac3b97ec98a8 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=50450 Thu, 07 May 2020 15:00:34 -0500 Psalm 143

1 Lord, hear my prayer,

listen to my cry for mercy;

in your faithfulness and righteousness

come to my relief.

2 Do not bring your servant into judgment,

for no one living is righteous […]

]]> 6acf8baf7ab1d17a463384fe13af528d Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=48045 Tue, 28 Apr 2020 21:22:47 -0500 We were high school sweethearts at Lamar High School and we were married in 1968 (51 years ago) by Dr. Shamblin. We have been blessed with our two children, Jack and Meredith, and with our grandson Matthew. All t […]

]]> a75112a32eef1489a3a4e0c96e9447f7 Sally Penning wrote a new post https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/?p=48369 Sat, 11 Apr 2020 21:33:03 -0500 There never was any doubt about what church I would attend when I graduated from the University of Texas in 1953 and came to work in Houston. While I looked for roommates and a place to live, I stayed with […]

]]> b3721903eaef2753c389ea29b25c0866 Sally Penning commented on the post, Special Livestream Traditional https://storage.stlukesmethodist.org/special-livestream-traditional/#comment-2066 Sun, 29 Mar 2020 13:43:41 -0500 Glad you are with us Hollie!

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