Painfully Hopeful

Using Accordance

I enjoy using Accordance, it’s flexible and I can set up the program quickly to accomplish whatever task I have in hand with a click or two (I save my workspaces). I have a workspace for Greek, one for Hebrew, and one for when I’m doing English searches to find a quick reference or review…

Baptism

A couple of weeks ago Central held a baptism worship for two folks who wanted to become members of the congregation. They had been baptized as infants, raised in the Church, and had been living out their faith for years – but Central practices membership for only people who have been baptized as adults, and…

The retreat is over, gotta breathe..

For the last couple of months my long-term focus was on developing the Student Chaplain retreat. It’s quite a bit of work, preparing a retreat, but it’s rewarding to focus on a particular topic with a group for an extended period. In fact, the chaplain retreat is a highlight of every January for me. This…

Time for Christians to listen

You know, when an Agnostic Jewish news satirist starts quoting Scripture to a TV Preacher and, frankly, makes a whole lot more sense of a tragedy than the preacher – something is seriously “off.” Do we really care so little for our testimony to Jesus’ Kingdom that we’d rather spend our time trying to show…

Someone as bonkers as me…

In case you were wondering where I got my idea for the online Bible study from, I must admit it’s a derivative idea. I’m not naturally that creative. Father Matthew Presents is a hysterical look as aspects of the Christian faith from an Episcopal perspective – he does a great job! I particularly enjoy this…

As if I didn’t have enough to do…

For the last several months I’ve really felt, for the first time in my pastorate here, that Central Baptist really needed a Bible study. Not a new small group or fellowship, an honest-to-goodness sit down with the text Bible study. After all, if we’re going to have a Church that is literate reading Scripture together…