Mar 9, 2015 | Sermons
For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a good sense of balance. As a teenager I began balancing things on my finger, my chin, and my nose: sticks, brooms, boards, anything that was straight, and sometimes things that were not. When I was seventeen, I told my friends...
Mar 3, 2015 | Sermons
Matthew 18:2-4; 1 Corinthians 13:4-13 How many of you remember your first birthday? All of you had one, but none of you remember it. Yet I bet most of you had an experience like this. Someone baked you a cake with lots of icing and put a single candle on the cake....
Mar 1, 2015 | Blog
My paths once crossed with a guitarist who was music leader for a pastor’s conference I was attending in Tennessee. He discovered that I had once pastored Trinity Baptist Church in Moultrie, GA. After he asked me about the music ministry there, I explained to him...
Feb 22, 2015 | Sermons
Matthew 15:1-20 When I was a child my mother would say, “It’s time to eat. Go wash your hands and come to the table.” Washing our hands before we ate was as much a part of our mealtime ritual as praying, or eating what was set before us without complaining, or no...
Feb 18, 2015 | Sermons
As Bill Powell stood in line to get a hot dog on the busy streets of New York City, the hotdog vender said, “You don’t sound like you’re from around here. Where are you from?” “I’m from Georgia. There’s a group of us here...
