This past Friday and Saturday our youth group participated in Worldvision’s 30 Hour Famine. The event calls people to forego food for 30 hours, for which they raise funds to give toward worldwide hunger relief 1. During these 30 hours participants learn about the impact of hunger and poverty, do a service project, and through…
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Mystery
Pastoring, in my mind, is a mysterious vocation. We stand between the light of comfort and the darkness of sorrow. We shepherd people out of this world, and into new life. We proclaim a message of great power, which can only be expressed in this world through weakness. When we at our best as leaders,…
Prophet
Our culture tends to think of prophets as “fortune-tellers.” Biblically speaking, this incorrect. In the Bible a prophet typically functions as a “covenant prosecutor,” calling the people back to the LORD’s commands – reminding them of the call to treat people justly, particularly “widows and orphans” 1. The image above testifies to this ongoing work…
Follow
The image above is from an Atlantic City church, taken nearly two years after Hurricane Sandi gutted the place. An ABCNJ work team was on site the day I took the photo 1, there was still an entire wing of the building which couldn’t be entered without breathing masks, it was that dangerous to humans….
Hear
Of all the musical instruments we use in worship, the one which I personally enjoy the least is the pipe organ. That’s not to say I don’t appreciate the amazing nature of the instrument. A proper pipe organ, after all, is calibrated to resonate specifically with the structure in which it is housed. When a…
Prayer
At Central we take a nod from our liturgical brothers and sisters and make our prayer time “of the people.” Given that we are who we are, this takes on a rather odd format, but is nevertheless endearing to me 1. This image was captured just as prayer time was beginning, and our prayer leader…
