Thank God For Science was such a departure for us. As Chris Macedo told me, "It's the LEAST life application and yet the MOST impactful series we've ever had." I tend to agree. Yet all good things, as they say, come to an end, and so did this series. Here's the wrap...
The series began with The Wrong Question as we learned together Genesis 1 is not concerned with HOW and WHEN but with WHO and WHY. Then we looked through the telescope in Do The Math and we realized that a finely tuned universe demands a Fine Tuner. Last week we gazed...
After church on Sunday, a very nice woman from Good Shepherd introduced me to some friends of hers who are new to the church. And my long-time Good Shepherd friend was so excited. "I used these invite cards y'all passed out for the series," she said, referring to the...
As a lot of you know, I majored in English in college. I feel like it has served me well in ministry and I’m glad that my daughter Taylor has is doing a double major in History and English at hVanderbilt while my son Riley had an English concentration at UNC-Chapel...
The highlight of this past weekend was a visit from Evan and Kim Wyly. They live in Dallas, Evan has an ownership interest in the Texas Legends of the NBA's D League ... er, now the G League, and so was in Charlotte for the NBA All Star Weekend Shenanigans. Evan and I...
So I have a telescope here with me. Not exactly a high powered one, of course, but nevertheless a version of that which enables us to see the intergalactic and interstellar. And if you were with us last week, we looked through this and saw the...
In Week One of Thank God For Science, we discovered together that although we ask Genesis 1 "how" and "when," it answers back with "who" and "why." Then last week, we went both interstellar and intergalactic and saw the many ways that a finely tuned universe demands a...
While cleaning out some of our file cabinets recently, I came across a file containing many of my old Trentonian columns, including this one on a pair of brothers you may have heard of: Erik and Lyle Menendez. Say WHAT?! At the time, the Menendezes lived in Hopewell,...
Yesterday, sixteen United Methodist clergy from the Western North Carolina Conference began an eight month journey with me into Simplifying The Message And Mulitplying The Impact. This is the second year that I have been able to lead this project and as a lot of you...
This past Saturday, Julie and I traveled over to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to join our son Riley and his wife Natalie for the UNC-Miami overtime thriller. Being there as father & son got me remembering some of unique places my dad took me when I was growing up....