Sermons prepared for and delivered on Holiday Weekends (and the Thanksgiving Weekend is one) are tricky things. You suspect attendance will be down (it was, slightly, but much higher than last year’s Thanksgiving), you wonder if the energy level will be off, and so you debate on whether or not you should give a top Read the full article…
I love this upcoming Christmas Series. I love the title: Baby Invasion. I love the premise: people act in strange ways when a baby invades their lives. Especially the baby whose name was Jesus. And I love the talk that I get to give this coming Sunday: “The In Utero Leap.” I believe you will Read the full article…
How often do you get to attend, much less host, a 99th birthday party? The answer is embedded into the question, isn’t it? Here I am with my siblings surrounding my mother, Betty Davis, who turned 99 on Tuesday. We had a gathering with about 50 of her Austin-area friends. The best line of the Read the full article…
Over the last several weeks, a young man has begun attending church with some friends and family. That’s not all that unusual or extraordinary, with one difference: he grew up in this church, drifted away when he graduated college, and so is returning to worship after an absence of about ten years. And so what Read the full article…
For the final message of the Hidden Heroes series, I left Colossians 4 and went to Romans 16. Why? Some complicated but (I think) ultimately sound reasoning. 1. I knew we needed a “shero” — after six weeks of male heroes, I felt the church needed to hear about an early church heroine. 2. The Read the full article…
