Aug 24, 2020 | Mission, Practices
What do you think of when hear “bearing the cross”? You may think of wearing, not bearing, a cross. Like little gold crosses: pretty, inoffensive jewelry. You may think of bigger gold crosses on necklaces, proudly, defiantly worn against Christian persecution in...
Aug 19, 2020 | Choice, Practices
I don’t remember when we first sang it. I don’t know when we decided to make it our weekly theme song. (It’s been years.) I’m told we don’t play it like the recordings, or like other churches sing it. I haven’t bothered to check. I can never remember who wrote it, and...
Aug 10, 2020 | Choice, Practices
The Parable of the Loving Father (Luke 15) is better known as the Parable of the Prodigal Son. You know this one: the boy who gets his piece of the family fortune, blows it all, and slinks home, only to fall half-dead into the arms of his father, who wants nothing...
Aug 5, 2020 | Choice, Practices
Paul, a traveling evangelist, makes his way to Athens, Greece, a center and seat of culture, knowledge, philosophy and law. He looks around the city, and sees lots of statues and markers and religious expressions. One of these is a marker dedicated to an unknown god:...
Jul 22, 2020 | Mission, Practices
John Robert Lewis (1940-2020) just passed away. So many words have been written about him that one more post won’t add much. So just one small thought from his memoir, Walking With the Wind. Congressman John Lewis was a kid in college in Nashville when the sit-ins at...
