Yesterday afternoon was wonderful. The weather was beautiful, the Sun was out, and the family was all occupied. So, after I got home from worship and wound-down from the morning, I took a book and went out to the backyard swing to read. I read about a chapter or so, but kept nodding off 1….
Category: Pastoring
No One Closer
This is an edited manuscript of my sermon for April 26, 2015. It is based on Hebrews 2:1-15. Last week we walked through Hebrews chapter 1 and discovered how Hebrews sets up Jesus as being “greater than the angels.” Here in chapter two we begin to discover why this matters. As I pondered the passage…
“Doing Stuff”
I put the video embedded below on my other social networking feeds yesterday, but I felt it was a good fit for today’s blog post. Especially since I posted a sermon yesterday. On Saturday, April 18, Central Baptist Church held a Chili Cook-Off fundraiser to support the Cedars of Lebanon Campaign – helping to raise…
Greater By Far
This was to be my sermon for April 19, based on Hebrews chapter 1. Sunday morning I was preparing how I wanted to preach it and ended up scrapping it as being too much like a paper I’d write for class. There’s still some decent enough elements in it, so I present it here. I…
A trending journey
I’ve been seeing some posts recently on two related “church trends.” The most prominent is a conversation with Rachel Held Evans on Relevant Magazine’s web-site. This conversation springs out of her new book Searching for Sunday. The conversation is interesting, and makes me want to go out and get a copy of the book for…
Ministry “Just Because”
I’ve written about this before, but one of the things I like to do when I’m on “staycation” is to attend worship at Central. It’s fun going to worship with the same folks to serve God alongside week after week when they acknowledge you’re not there in any “official capacity.” This Sunday was extra fun…
