One of the blessing of pastoring at Central Baptist is the near by locale of our denomination’s retirement home, Riverview Estates. As a pastor, I’ve been to many retirement homes over the years, and Riverview remains the only home I’ve ministered in that I don’t leave depressed. The staff and residents work together to make…
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Romantic Realist
Sometimes I hate looking at the world. There is so much going on as people struggle to eat, fight disease, overcome natural disasters, and battle oppression for the hope of a better today. Yet, I have the audacity to think that it’s normal to go through my day without many troubles at all. The problems…
Healthy Introspection
I’m preaching on 1 Corinthians 15 this Sunday, and as I worked on the text this week I came to appreciate something about the Apostle Paul. To be honest, I had seen it before, but as I looked at the text for my sermon I was enabled to pause and see it as one if…
A Blast From The Past
Google Video is shutting down, so I’m uploading to You Tube some of the videos I had hosted there. This video was created in 2006 for an devotional movement we were doing at Central. The character, Darth Nohope, was constructed to give the congregation a third-party villain as we leapt into a new narrative, It…
The Traditional Response
Holy Week is soon upon us, and with it will come the cacophony of voices crying, “It’s only a tradition!” This is, ironically, the tradition response if the non-traditional Christian the the idea of Holy Week. It used to bother me, as most if the Evangelical circles I walked in mocked the idea of a…
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. Â 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! Â I particularly enjoy this…
