There are relatively few places in our immediate area (Steele Creek, Lake Wylie, Fort Mill) where I can be genuinely incognito.I've lived here just long enough and we are just large enough as a church that it is inevitable someone in any public setting knows that I am...
To help people grasp the scope of creation during yesterday's service on "I Believe In God The Father Almighty, Maker Of Heaven & Earth," we showed this video:It helped (I think!) to reinforce yesterday's bottom line: God the Father Almighty is the...
I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker Of Heaven And Earth . . . So begins one of the oldest compilations of the church’s beliefs, a bold declaration known asThe Apostles’ Creed.Some of you grew up reciting it in church every week. Others had more...
Sometimes . . . . . . . I have two Nutrageouses after lunch. . . . I wonder if anyone will show up for church on Sunday. . . . I wish I could still have Frosted Mini-Wheats for breakfast. . . . when I'm driving alone and I see yet another of those...
This past Sunday we took the unusual step of distributing and completing a survey during our worship gathering.At all four services, we took ten minutes and worshipped by completing a snapshot questionnaire that helps us gauge where we are most (and least) effective...
Having grown up in Texas and lived most of my adult life in North Carolina, I've had no small amount of exposure to Southern Rock.It's not my favorite genre of music by a long shot. It's also not very easy to define.I mean, who exactly qualifies as a Southern...
I peeked in at the NFL Draft Coverage on a couple of different occasions this past weekend.As you would expect, there was bloviating galore from the experts on which teams were winners in the draft, which were losers; which prospects are can't miss and which are...
As many of you know the bible's division into chapters and verses is a much later addition to the Scriptural texts. You can read the story of how the medieval church gradually implemented these reader aids here.Because that work came at least 1,000 years after...
Bill Simmons, who is a Boston-bred, ESPN-based author and columnist, has written the definitive history of the NBA with his The Book Of Basketball.In this, the quickest 800 page read of my life, Simmons is in turn unfiltered, poignant, statistical, profane,...
Heath Bradley is a teaching pastor and emerging scholar based out of the Pulaski Heights UMC in Little Rock, Arkansas.We have become cyber-friends and he invited me to use this blog to review his new book, Flames Of Love: Hell & Universal Salvation.So, here...