Painfully Hopeful

Effective Preaching?

Here’s a question I’ve often pondered. Is preaching actually effective? We live in a world literally bombarded with information. Tools like Twitter, Instagram, texts, news alerts, Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, Snapchat, and Slack shove information at these computers we carry around in our pockets. Many of us are information weary – and then we tell people…

Unpacking Alone in the night

With a group this size there really are a huge number of rabit trails we could go down, but I want to make sure we stick with the main story arc. We’ll soon get to see the Senate in action! Let’s unpack. Michael and Terrin I was a bit bummed when I had to sacrifice…

Fiction Tuesday – Alone in the light

Today’s blog is the continuation of, Welcome to the Valleys. If you would like to catch up with the tale, the first section can be found at this link Jeremy awoke to find his head laid on a soft pillow. His eyes took a moment to adjust to the brilliance of the light pouring from the crystalline ceiling of…

Misfits

Every now and again I need to say something about the congregation I pastor, Central Baptist Church. I was explaining our nickname, “The land of misfit Christians,” to the pastor of our Brazilian congregation last night and discovered the word “misfit,” in Portuguese, essentially translates into “de-adjusted.” That explains the ethos of the fellowship about…

The Angry, the Ugly, and the Anonymous

Yesterday I posted about my (hopefully) impending arrival of my new Luma mesh wifi system. I’m eager to put it through its paces. As excited as I am, however, there seem to be people who are becoming increasingly angry at the wait. Let me run down a few. The team at luma had always said…

Looking to the future

This past January my router began to give signs it was getting ready to roll over and die. Finally, as February hit, it refused to even power on. It was time to get a new router. About this same time I became aware of a new mesh wireless system which was about to be released,…