This week we're off to camp with our young people. Blogging will be nil unless I get the hook up from my IT friend. Should we get a connection, we will give some updates from the Creek.
This week we're off to camp with our young people. Blogging will be nil unless I get the hook up from my IT friend. Should we get a connection, we will give some updates from the Creek.
Great thought from the late Henri Nouwen on being ... Of Being and Doing Henri J. M. Nouwen Being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and doing things together is more important than doing things alone. If you like this thought, you may want to check out the Daily ...
Several big projects are taking time from blogging. Posting will be light for a few weeks.
Sunday evening brought a surprise. About ten years ago on this past Sunday, Snow Hill Baptist Church invited us, out family, to come and for me to pastor the church. We were blessed by the expresssions of love and appreciation. We look forward to many more years ahead as we follow Jesus here on The ...
I found this quote thought-provoking, Jesus selected and prepared the company of twelve disciples as the prefiguration of the people of God, the continuation and extension of Israel as God's witness to the nations. The resurrected Lord encountered his confused disciples in Galilee and continued their formation into a "missionary community," a "sent out people," whose ...
Can't leave this one alone, just yet. The Daily Oklahoman carried an article about the recent SBC vote on its relationship with the BWA. ?The time has come that the BWA is going in a separate direction,? Jordan said. ?Southern Baptists are going to continue their commitment to missions and evangelism and continue to partner ...
What happens when you marginalize by categorizing so that your numbers of participants reflect your narrow pedagogy? You may portend to speak for much larger numbers but cannot get them to participate out of fear of being labeled by thoughtful dissent. Certainly the criticism will arise, "why did you not go, vote your conscience, speak ...
Jen Lemen posted this painting on her blog ... outstanding. Sun. Moon and Stars by Kate Bedell
Wonder if it is good timing to consider loving our enemies? Last week we witnessed the celebration of a great President. One of his chief accomplishments, according to some, came in the instilling of national pride - people loved to be American again. We spend eight years with a not so great President and we ...
Thoughts from across the pond …
I met Andrew Jones online and on the phone. We have mutual friends. He has a good post on the whole SBC-BWA thing from the perspective of someone across the pond - as Andrew lives in London. I liked a quote from Andrew, used in a paper written by another friend ,so much ...
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