New Year’s Eve has never been a holiday I particularly enjoyed. Watching the ball drop in Times Square and listening to “Auld Lang Syne” don’t excite me. What I do enjoy is New Year’s Day and college football, except there are no bowl games this year. But I digress! I don’t get excited about New… Read More »
God Still Has A People
How many would show up? That was the discussion among our staff recently as we discussed our Christmas Day worship service. The guesses (and that’s what they were) varied greatly but the numbers mentioned reminded me that there has been a lot of debate about Christmas in recent years. The issues are numerous. Should we… Read More »
What Matters More at Christmas? Family or Jesus?
The only people who would entertain such a question are those who are serious about their faith relationship with Jesus Christ. To the average man or woman on the street, it’s a silly question. As a kid growing up in Kentucky, it was all about family and Santa. I knew it was also about Jesus,… Read More »
Christmas and Spiritual Leadership at Home
Several years ago while visiting family in Kentucky at Christmas, my sister asked if I would share the Christmas story with her young children. As the evening continued, I found myself putting it off until it was time to leave. They did not hear the story of Jesus’ birth that night. Why? I’m not sure… Read More »
The Wise Men Said “YES”
Sunday’s sermon focused on lessons from the Wise Men, who responded with positive action when they saw the star God placed in the sky. They said “yes” to God’s prompting. Not everyone does! He was a middle aged man who attended worship most Sundays at the small rural church I served in Kentucky years ago.… Read More »
Starting and Ending
This is my first blog entry and I’m already looking forward to writing my second one. That’s because I’ve learned that often the hardest thing we do in life is start something or end something. The middle is not that tough…we just do it. But starting and ending things…now that’s a different story. It’s the… Read More »
Haiti Team – Day 7
This is long winded blog so I apologize in advance. First we want to thank each of you that have followed our journey this week in Haiti. Without your support and prayers we would not have been able to perform the Lord’s work. Today was slightly different. Several of us went back to the school… Read More »
Haiti Team – Day 6
We just wrapped up our nightly devotion which was conducted by Billy Finch. Today we wrapped up some painting at the school. The exiting part was the school and church area we have worked all week was have a good old fashioned revival and the classrooms we cleaned and painted were being used by the… Read More »
Haiti Team – Day 5
Another great day in Haiti. The temperature pushed 100 degrees + high humidity. Today we saw a couple of real life Haitian situations. First, thank God that we have a couple of nurses on the combined team. Vickie Blackburn who is traveling with us and a nurse with the KY team were faced with a… Read More »
Haiti Team – Day 4
Another great day in Haiti. We headed to our work site where Raymond asked Doug Hurst, Jessica Shaver and me to spend some time with the kids hanging around. We sent the kids to get there friends and prayed about what to share. With our interpreter, Richie, I told the story of Noah and the… Read More »