We’ve had The King Of Bling, The Iron Lady King, and The However Kings. (Well, I originally titled that third one The Kings Of Compromise, but if you were with us last week you know that The However Kings is a much more appropriate title.) This week it’s the most painful of the Royal Pains: Read the full article…
Last Sunday afternoon, Good Shepherd hosted a briefing session for delegates to the upcoming Western North Carolina Annual Conference meeting. Methodists from all over Mecklenburg and Gaston counties gave up their Sunday naps to come and receive the training necessary to be engaged representatives up in Lake Junaluska. But the meeting concluded with a kind of Read the full article…
When John Irving writes a novel, he begins with the final sentence. Here’s how Irving himself words it: “For 12 novels the last sentence has come first, and not even the punctuation has changed. From that last sentence I make my way in reverse through the plot, because there always is a plot—I love plot—to Read the full article…
Covering a song in rock & roll is a delicate task. The artist must honor the original while adding a new element, energy, or style that makes the new version stand on its own. Some artists cover well. Others get covered. Some, like Bruce Springsteen, do a pretty fair job of both. Here are my Read the full article…
We preachers spend a lot of time and energy trying to bring life to our sermons through what have historically been called illustrations. Donald Grey Barnhouse, longtime pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, compiled the most famous collection of such sermon helps in a book titled, appropriately enough, Let Me Illustrate. Illustrations I have found Read the full article…
