So here are some things I remember from Thanksgivings growing up and Thanksgivings grown up . . . My mom making pumpkin pie. (By the way, my mother turned 93 yesterday and she still plays tennis, writes books, and gives speeches. If that’s not something to be thankful for, nothing is.) Eating cold pumpkin pie Read the full article…
I have found that in church life, the more you prepare to receive guests, the more guests you will receive. It even happened back at Mt. Carmel Church in Monroe, NC, a congregation I served from 1990-1999. Once we put a plan in place that all first time guests would get an applie pie delivered Read the full article…
Writing notes or letters by hand is fast becoming a lost art form. Almost a relic, like, well, like this letter signed by Abraham Lincoln. Except I do what I can to make sure that in our church culture at least, hand written notes become a recovered art form. That’s why I send a hand Read the full article…
So we’ve done How He Loves Us by John Mark McMillan both Sundays of the Loved series. You can see and hear it here, as performed by Kim Walker. The first Sunday, our own April Geiger did a heart-stopping, awe-inspiring, goose bumping version of it as part of our closing invitation. Then here’s how we Read the full article…
Judges 17:6 says it this way: “In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.”And when people do what is right in their own eyes . . . they usually end up doing wrong. What was the cause of the dilemma in Judges Read the full article…
