For the last couple of weeks, I had been telling the staff to clear their calendars for Tuesday, May 15 at 1:30 p.m. for a Surprise Extravaganza. I was most disappointed when one of our team members did not re-schedule the cruise he is taking with his wife this week. But Chris Macedo will know Read the full article…
Bubba Watson’s tear-filled celebration upon winning this year’s Master’s sparked an internal question: what are my favorite “cry” moments in sports? To make the list below, the tears must be those of victory, not of defeat. They may well contain some larger pathos (see Michael Jordan in 1991) but the overriding emotion is that of celebration. Read the full article…
If you ask most people who are even remotely connected to church life — Methodist or otherwise — “what is it that distinguishes the Methodist church from any other church?” you’ll get answers that focus on the practices of our denomination as opposed to its beliefs: They move their pastors every four years. They have a method Read the full article…
For this final message in Courageous, I’m moving out of the story of Joshua and his leadership of the messy family known as the children of Israel and moving into Paul and his leadership of the messy family known as the church at Colossae. And it’s a topic that relates to every household and every Read the full article…
The first 2/3 of James 1:27 brings great comfort to those of us who believe in showing our faith through good deeds: “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” We get Read the full article…
