Shannon and I have been out of town for about a week and a half. I had a math conference in Gainesville, Florida for a few days. On our way back to Ga, we visited some friends in Valdosta (Jason, Candy and Joshua). Then, we went to visit our families in Vidalia, GA while Shannon [...]
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Entering the room, I didn’t know exactly what to expect. I knew that it was a wonderful opportunity to be able to meet and talk with some fellow ministers concerning what it means to follow Jesus Christ and lead others in this path. Young in ministry and in my overall walk with God, there is [...]
I was thinking this morning about how our churches (for the large part) seem to be homogeneous, meaning, the people in our churches all seem to look alike and be very much alike. I wondered is there a place for the marginalized of our society in our church, or would we marginalize them the same [...]
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Recently, I read a thought-provoking article by John Ortberg called, “Your Hidden Curriculum,” found in the winter 2009 volume of Leadership Journal (a good journal I might add that can be found at Barnes & Noble). Below the title, Ortberg asks – “What do people learn from you about the Christian life? Sometimes it’s what [...]
I have often heard people talk about the God of the Bible – how we know who he is by what he does. We see the many times that God provided for his people – the ram for Abraham’s sacrifice, in the desert when Israel was wandering, his instruction to Israel to provide for the [...]
Last night, our pastor (Robert Barnes) had us to think of one situation in our lives in which we need God to move and change things. He then spoke about the power of Jesus to heal, deliver, conquer, save, love, create, etc. and asked us when we thought about that thing on Monday (today) to [...]
I just wanted to post some thoughts I have had today about something that Laura Seals (our wonderful, talented Sunday School teacher) mentioned in her lesson today. We are studying the story of Job, and she brought out that Job took his position as a father seriously – even to the point that after his [...]
