Last night I said goodbye to a friend. Pastor Ronnie and his family had been part of my life since September of 2015, when they showed up in worship and he let me know he was looking to plant a Brazilian Baptist congregation. Central had been one of several churches identified as possible locations by…
Tag: hope
The Coming Celebration
What follows is an edited version of my sermon on James 5:7-11, with some brief thoughts on the first six verses of this chapter. While I’ll be concentrating on verses 7-11 in this message, for us to do so we’ll first need to give a bit of context. The fifth chapter of James, up to…
I’m tired of this
I’ve been borrowing my neighbor’s Apple Watch for the past several days, and I’d planed to make Monday’s post my “thoughts thus far” with the experience. Then a monster decided he didn’t like some people and decided to kill 50 people, and wound 53 more, at a gay night club. I don’t mention my foiled…
Broken Chains
Jesus breaks the chains of sin and death. This is the very heartbeat of Christianity. He breaks them with his death, both ransoming us from our accuser and establishing the victory. He then destroys them forever the morning he exits the tomb. So why are sin and death still so active? Why do I open…
Merry Christmas
May I take this opportunity to wish all my readers a very merry Christmas and a happy holiday season. Wherever you are I hope you are among people who genuinely care for and support you. And may joy be an ever-present refrain for you all in the year to come.
December Rose
After the attacks in Paris and Beirut I created an image which imposed the flags of France and Lebanon upon a hand outstretched in welcome. And then comes California, and I wondered what to do. Part of me thought I should create a collection of these images. Each time I became aware of a mass…
