I don’t have much to say on this one. Any pastor can relate to the existence of “drifters.” People in a hopeless search for a perfect community in which they don’t have to feel any tension. Unfortunately for drifters, the tension 1 we feel in community is partly how the Holy Spirit leads us into…
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The Presence of Community
After a terribly difficult week, Saturday was a bit of a respite. Central Baptist Church was out and about doing various tasks and it was nice to see the breathe of community life in action. Things began in the morning as a group of folks gathered to take care of the fallen leaves and get…
I’m Kinda Over It
The other day I received a “church media catalog” at Central Baptist. This is, essentially, a rebranded theatre catalog with some “church elements” thrown in 1. As I paged though it, I found myself becoming more and more depressed. There were pages and pages of cool tech gadgets, each more expensive and feature-filled than the…
Show and tell
Several years ago a new resident of Riverview Estates, Miss Peg, began attending worship at Central Baptist. She’s a wonderful lady. She is joyful, inquisitive, loves to laugh at herself, and is a tad bit mischievous. Really, she’s my type of person. If you read my blog with any regularity, Peg is often sharing her…
Stop the madness
Churches need to have a serious talk about guns. If one bothers to look there is more information coming out about the church shooting in North Wales last Sunday. Most of the information in this latest article I already knew from sources one step removed from the actual shooting. I haven’t shared it because I…
Never Again
I didn’t check my news feeds until late this afternoon, so it wasn’t until around 4 o’clock that I saw the news about a church shooting in North Wales, PA. Not only is that just up the road from where I grew up, I have friends who continue to live in the area. Seeing such…
