You’ve seen them, haven’t you? They ride in the front seats of expensive cars and drive headlong into a brick wall. And then they do it again And again. They’re crash test dummies. Why do they keep doing the same dumb thing over and over again? Why do we? Crash Test Dummies. A series Read the full article…
As a lot of you know, I write a sermon manuscript virtually every week. I am able to work several weeks ahead, so while I write one almost every week, it’s not the one I’ll deliver that coming Sunday. That one, of course, has been written several weeks earlier. But what’s the purpose of a Read the full article…
In the picture below, you will see our India ministry partners alongside six young people with whom they were able to celebrate baptism. The young people who were baptized live a region of known for worship of a particularly “powerful” native goddess. Locals worship the goddess with animal sacrifice — to the extent that Read the full article…
If you are a Methodist preacher, Annual Conference is a vital part of your clergy year. Part family reunion, part revival, and part bureaucratic nightmare, the Western North Carolina Conference meeting has been a summer mainstay in my life since 1988. Here are the Top Five moments from the 2016 edition, which I attended last Read the full article…
Yesterday’s message was one of moderating and not moderating. For example, I originally had a bottom line that contrasted “diapers” and “Disney.” But over the last week, Disney became known for the alligator who snatched the two year old boy, and so it just didn’t feel right. I moderated it to a contrast of “routines” Read the full article…
