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My Red Dirt Road
June 5, 2014 0

Every time my wife travels to and works for a few days in Dallas, the city where I grew up, I think of this song by Brooks & Dunn: I didn’t grow up on red dirt road. But I have enough memories and nostalgia to realize that it has life on both ends.

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Baptism Celebration — Photo Recap
June 4, 2014 2

If you were there, you know how the Baptism Celebration pulsated with joy and euphoria. If you weren’t there . . . well, we’re going to do it again. And here’s what it looked like: First of all, we had about 200 people show up, some (55) to be baptized, others to support, and still Read the full article…

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Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Aerosmith Songs
June 3, 2014 0

More than any other major rock band, Aerosmith owes its success to hip hop music. Huh? After a stellar run in the late 70s, Aerosmith limped into the 1980s boozed up, drugged out, and on rock & roll life support.  Then in 1986, Run-DMC did a remake of Walk This Way, accompanied by one of Read the full article…

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The Second Wash — A Sermon On Entire Sanctification, 21st Century Style
June 2, 2014 0

The entire Wash Me! series was about holiness. Yet if we’d called it Sermons On How To Be Holy . . . well, let’s put it this way: there have been no need for extra seating and extra parking. So the series built and built and built until its conclusion yesterday.  And I wanted to Read the full article…

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Wash Me! Finale — The Second Wash
May 30, 2014 0

We’ve played this video every week during the Wash Me! series: It has a) given me time to roll my little table to the middle of the platform! and b) served as a weekly reminder that we are looking together at God’s power to wash us thoroughly, to cleanse us completely of all that would Read the full article…

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