Annual Spiritual Check-up
New Year’s Eve is an interesting holiday differing from others because it does not commemorate an event, like Easter or a person like Christmas. New Years is a holiday that celebrates the inevitability of the passing of time. We make New Years special only by being reflective of the year that has passed and proactive […]
Fear Not
I love watching movies at Christmastime and there is hardly a holiday season that goes by that doesn’t have me enjoying, White Christmas, Miracle on 34th street and It’s A Wonderful Life. Last week A Charlie Brown Christmas aired on national prime time television for the 53rd time. In a world where the latest greatest technology […]
The Fortune Cookie
Imagine finishing your meal at the Great Wall Chinese Restaurant. The server brings you the bill and snuggled up against it is a very special Fortune Cookie. I say it’s special because this time it’s going to accurately predict the future. With great anticipation you break open the cookie and eat it completely before you […]
Contingency Plans
The lights went out during worship last week. All of them. The ones overhead. The platform spotlights. The projector’s bright beam. Even the multicolored LEDs on the sound board went out. They’d lost power. In retrospect, everything turned out alright. There was enough light streaming in through the stained glass windows that most people could […]
The Most Important Day of the Year
The most important day of the year for churches is just around the corner. Christmas Eve, not Easter, is the most important day of the year to reach unchurched people. This fact has been true for decades but it is becoming more true today. So what does this mean for your church? One, if you […]
Happy Thanksgiving
Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 (NIV) Thanksgiving for the Christian is not just a holiday, I believe it is a Holy-day commemorating Christian pilgrim people who sought a new life in a new world where they could freely worship […]