Looking to the Amish for a Lesson in Humility

Looking to the Amish for a Lesson in Humility

Jan 18, 2017 | Blog

Last October Tina and I vacationed in Maine. For three days, we stayed on a working Amish farm. I learned that the Amish dress alike because it provides less opportunity for vanity.  If everyone is wearing the same thing, no one worries about how much to spend for...

A Lesson From the Snail and the Cheetah

Jan 15, 2017 | Sermons

Noah’s Ark: A Lesson From the Snail and the Cheetah Genesis 7:1-9 Is there anybody that doesn’t like to win? I married a person that loves to win.  You wouldn’t know that about my wife unless you played a game with her. It could be cards, dominoes, hop scotch, or...

Plan Ahead. It Wasn’t Raining When Noah Built the Ark

Jan 1, 2017 | Sermons

January 1, 2017 I grew up working summers in a lumber mill in my hometown in South Alabama.   Tina’s father put her and her sister to work doing all kinds of jobs.  One summer they helped him tear down old army barracks at Fort Rucker, Alabama.  She is a great nail...
What Charlie Brown and Linus Teach Us About Christmas

What Charlie Brown and Linus Teach Us About Christmas

Dec 25, 2016 | Blog, Sermons

As a boy, I looked forward to all the Charlie Brown specials the way an astronomer looks for the return of comets. Charles Schulz knew how to pull empathy from us as we rooted for Charlie Brown to win at least one baseball game.  This natural born loser had children...

Making Room for Others

Dec 18, 2016 | Sermons

December 18, 2016 Will you please finish this sentence for me? “And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in_______.” Luke 2:7 (KJV) I know it may sound blasphemous...