The people we choose to be heroes in our lives tell a lot about us, don't they?What we value, what we long for, how we are wired, and even how we change through the years.So I thought I'd take a quick tour of the different heroes I've had in the different seasons of...

Yesterday's Charlotte Observer featured this story from Marty Minchin.CHARLOTTE CHURCHES JOIN FOR MILLION MEAL MARCH Charlotte churches are banding together this month to package 1 million meals to be sent overseas to needy people.The Million Meal March...

 Whether it’s quick-serve or gourmet-prepared, home-cooked or store-bought, slow-cooked or microwaved-over, food is at the center of our lives.  It turns out it’s at the center of the Scriptures as well.  Think of all the biblical history that centers...

Throughout March of 2014, a group of churches in the greater Charlotte area will celebrate worship with a great instead . . .   Instead of rows of chairs or pews in our sanctuaries, dozens of assembly line tables;Instead of a band or choir leading us in praise, a...

Those of you who know me well -- or who just read yesterday's post -- know that I am a super-disciplined person.I complete projects well in advance, I show up to meetings and events early, I live by my routines, and I follow rules.Yet I am an undisciplined...

A little over a year ago, I turned a "Top Five Tuesday space into a confessional of sorts -- I came clean on five of the ways I'm more than a little anal-retentive.In that same vein, I've noticed that as I get older, there are certain things in life that bring...

While James-Michael Smith brought our English version of The Shadow Of A Doubt to a resurrection-worthy conclusion yesterday, I did the same with our Latino congregation.At 11:30, I crossed Moss Road -- en el otro lado de la calle -- entered our Corner Campus and was...

This Sunday is the final episode of The Shadow Of A Doubt.By way of review, we've experienced the following together:When you are honest about where you are, Jesus is faithful to show who he is."To whom shall we go?" . . .  the alternatives to faith stink!When...

I learned something phenomenal this week.Something that I could have/should have learned earlier had I been paying closer attention to the nuances of Romans 4.Back to the question that is the title of today's post:  Who in the Hebrew Scriptures Points To...

It happened again.I heard about a clergy colleague -- long considered to be on the conservative end of the theological debates roiling the United Methodist Church -- who has reconsidered his support of our denomination's official stand regarding same-sex intimacy,...