At Play

I am often “playing with my toys.”  I can’t help it, I see something that looks interesting and I am compelled to put it through it’s paces to see what I can do with it.  My playing around, however, isn’t all wasted time.  By the time I get finished fiddling around I often have a…

Welcome to synchronicity…

Conservatives tell me all the time that they don’t confuse the country with God.  They tell me this even when they are complaining when I won’t let them sing the Star Spangled Banner during worship when the 4th of July falls on a Sunday, but they tell me this.  Now, however, I’ve got a video…

5 Great Reasons to Give to a Church

A couple of days ago I listed five terrible reasons to give to a Church.  Like I said in the post, they aren’t things I typically hear around Central that much any more.  I have heard them at Central on occasion, and at every other Church I’ve ever been part of.  It’s a terrible shame,…

5 worst reasons to give to a local church

I have heard, or seen in action, each of these bad reasons for giving in my time as a Christian, and every time I have head one of them I’m cringed inwardly.  I still do here these at Central occasionally, but over the six years I’ve been here they’ve become rarer and rarer.  So much…

Why Wii™ Bowling?

As soon as I played Wii™ Bowling for the first time I thought, “We absolutely need to have a Church league.”  So we had one last year and it was quite successful.  So successful, as a matter of fact that the league has nearly doubled in size and now has two divisions in it’s second…

Facing the Wind – Introduction

Below is a rough draft of my introduction to the devotional study I’m writing on the Holy Spirit, entitled Facing the Wind.  I share it with you, my readers, for two reasons.  First, to spark interest among the folks from Central Baptist who will be going through the study at some point in the coming…