This has been a busy day, but I wanted share a short video I made about our Chili Cook Off last night. Attendance was down a bit, but we ended up raising nearly the same amount of money, $1808! This will contribute to an on-going endowment campaign for [Baptist Camp Lebanon](http://www.camplebanon.com), allowing the ministry to…
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Now we’re cookin’
Tonight, beginning at 5PM and ending at 7PM, Central Baptist Church is hosting it’s second annual Chili Cook-Off. We’ll have eight different kinds of chili, a Bluegrass band, cornbread, desserts, and a whole lot of fun. If you want to come, there’s still time to buy tickets through Eventbrite. Tickets are $15 for adults and…
Goals
I’m often asked by other pastors what my goals are for my pastoral ministry. It’s actually a question I have some difficulty answering. It’s not that I don’t have goals. I do. The goals I have for my pastoral ministry, however, are often not the “traditional” goals which pastors set. See, when I listen to…
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…
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…
