My confession about angels is that I’m not much interested in them. So the preacher to the Hebrews threw me for a loop when by talking so much about them. Until I finally got what he was saying. Then I realized his brilliance. And I can’t wait to share it with you. It includes one Read the full article…
We all have impulses. And many of those impulses are not necessarily healthy. Impulses to speak when silence is the better option. Impulses to spend when saving is the wiser choice. Impulses to sex when either abstinence or faithfulness is the path of life. Impulses to selfishness when submission is the way of Jesus. Impulses to seclusion Read the full article…
While at last week’s Annual Conference, I also attended the luncheon for graduates of Asbury Seminary who serve in Western North Carolina. The seminary was begun in 1923 with a handful of pastors-in-training gathering in the remote Kentucky hamlet of Wilmore. Today, the school has close to 1800 students on two different campuses (the second one in Read the full article…
We’ve all had those moments when a song we long thought said one thing actually sings something quite different. I had a friend one time who insisted against all evidence to the contrary that the Rolling Stone’s ballad “Angie” was in fact called “I Inject.” Or the other friend who thought that “Dreamweaver” was “Train From Read the full article…
As some of you know, I spent several days last week in Lake Junaluska for the meeting of the Western North Carolina Annual Conference. This yearly gathering (I guess why it’s called the Annual Conference) gathers together 2500 pastors and lay people from the western part of our state for three days of worship, reunion, Read the full article…
