Living as God’s Children
Oakhurst Baptist Church in Decatur, Georgia invited me to preach on 27 December 2015. My topic was Living as God’s Children based upon Colossians 3:12-14. Here is a link to video of the 21-minute...
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Stewardship Oakhurst Baptist Church Style
Oakhurst, as a faith community, is committed to breaking down the boundaries that limit the expressions of grace individually and communally. This commitment has moved the community repeatedly over the past 30 years to risk our...
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We are together only to be the church of God in Christ. We are not here by chance, but God through grace is making of us a fellowship to embody and to express the Spirit of Christ. In this fellowship, “there is no longer...
Read MoreWho can sustain the Church
The Ministering to Ministers Foundation helps ministers who have been beat up by their congregations. The number of such casualties seems to be growing and the MTM Board, often intimately familiar with the bloody details, bears...
Read MoreBeing generous is not always convenient
My church encourages members to bring canned goods to worship every week to help people in need. At the start of the “Food for All” program, I took our contributions to the local charity that distributes them whenever our...
Read MoreMinisters don’t have friends
I went to camp in May with about 50 pastors. I met just two people during the event and am pretty sure that the experience of most participants was similar. Camp Logos is a two-day training session in using Logos Bible software...
Read MoreThe danger of leaving important things undone
The Episcopal Book of Common Prayer confesses sin first in terms of having “left undone those things which we ought to have done,” and then in terms of having “done those things which we ought not to have done” (Daily Morning...
Read MoreA place of mutual support and love
The ideal of the church is to be a place of mutual support and love. Some days the church succeeds and some days the church fails in living up to its ideal. We can all tell sad stories of days when the church failed, but let me...
Read MoreA place of friendship
Churches are supposed to be places of friendship. The Apostle Paul wrote that God changed us from enemies into his friends and gave us the task of making others his friends also (2 Corinthians 5:18 GNB). And yet the church is...
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