For the last two mornings, I have had this strong desire to call in sick.Now I'm not sick, mind you.But the bed felt awfully warm. And there were some things on my schedule that I simply didn't want to face. And I knew the days ahead were long.So I thought, "wouldn't...
I bought some reading glasses yesterday.#*@#.I have just gotten tired of moving the morning paper or my current novel or my bible farther and farther away from my face to read.So I gave in and bought a pair of $6 reading glasses.You know what's the worst thing about...
Here's a video, put together by John Pavlovitz and Joe Jackson, that really brought home the point of yesterday's service, The Annoying Love Of Jesus.So be on the lookout for the persistent, relentless, annoying love of God in your life today.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 17? A...
I spend last weekend in Lake Charles, Louisiana, where Julie and I attended my niece's wedding. My niece is the daughter of my brother, the one who was recently elected a District Judge. You can read that post here.But weddings usually make people cry.So do funerals....
This is a picture of Eben Joseph Whisonant.He's in Vietnam now.Soon he'll be home in the Carolinas. Our very own Cathy Whisonant is there today, deeply involved in the process of adopting him. Shortly, she'll bring him home to his new family at Good Shepherd.Cathy is...