Earlier this week Jamie Burdette and I attended a funeral at another church for a woman whose daughter and granddaughter are members of FBC. In the congregation that afternoon were leaders from the two different Sunday School classes the daughter and granddaughter attend at First Baptist. Later in the week I was speaking with a… Read More »
Sunday Recap 02.01.2015
Sunday morning we wrapped up the “Living Life Without Regrets” sermon series and the response has been encouraging. I’ve heard stories about people making efforts to mend relationships, lose weight, exercise, prepare a will, talk to a financial advisor, etc. Of course there have been numerous testimonies from people reading the “Draw the Circle” devotional… Read More »
Jordan’s Story
I spent Thursday and Friday with four others from our staff at the Double14 Conference at NewSpring Church in Anderson, SC. NewSpring is one of the five largest churches in America, averaging about 30,000 each Sunday on their nine campuses in our state. We were challenged and encouraged. We learned and had lots of discussion… Read More »
Spiritually Burned Out
I spent yesterday @ White Oak Conference Center and during lunch I met a youth pastor from a Baptist church in the Spartanburg area. He was there for a few days of personal spiritual retreat, the first time he’s ever done anything like that. Said he really needed it. He was tired physically, emotionally, and… Read More »
You’re Ancient
“Oh my gosh, you’re ancient!” That was Miller Pitt’s spontaneous outburst when he checked the version of Mozilla Firefox I was using to access the internet on the PC in my study at the church. It was working fine, except each time I went to our own church web site some of the content did… Read More »