Psalm 56, Proverbs 23, I Peter 2:21-25 Here’s an interesting story. In 1896, Charles Monroe Sheldon wrote a little book about a small-town church that was challenged when one Sunday an apparent, homeless beggar came walking into the middle of their worship service. The events that unfolded caused that little congregation to ask themselves, “What… Continue Reading
Today read Psalm 56, Proverbs 22, Acts 16:19-28 In case you are wondering, I don’t start these things with some great plan of how they will end. I am very much a “stream of consciousness” kind of writer. When I get to the end of a blog, I am about as surprised as anybody how… Continue Reading
Reading for today: Psalm 32, Proverbs 20, Romans 8:31-39. (How am I doing Pastor Gary?) It is hard to believe we are only two weeks away from the end of Lent and the end of our 40 Day Adventure together. I hope this has been helpful and especially over the next two weeks begins to… Continue Reading
This is a little long but I promise it is well worth the read. It is my all-time favorite story about the church. When I was a pastor I would read this story to every class of new members. This is the church I dreamed of. This is the church we can make happen. This… Continue Reading
We are flying through this thing. Thank you for all of the kind comments and messages that I get from those of you following this exercise. I have never thought of myself as particularly bright, particularly devout, particularly deep. What I want to be is willing, willing to risk, to look foolish, to be too… Continue Reading
I wrote a tell-all book many years ago. The good news is that it told-all about ME. It is no Pulitzer prize winner but it is perhaps one of the most healing acts I have ever done. To put on paper, with pen, the complete and honest account of your own sins is to be… Continue Reading
Right out of Trevecca Doris and I were called to a church in Augusta, Georgia to do “youth and music,” two absolutely, completely incompatible jobs, that only someone with the blind optimism of youth would even attempt. It was my first introduction to a “big” church, about 200 people, as opposed to the “small” church… Continue Reading
We enter a new week, a new theme, a new Psalm. Psalm 32, Proverbs 15, and Matthew 11:2-19 are the readings for today. We will think about the church this week, as one of the things that God loves. He calls it, in fact, His bride. Today, I will do a brief video with some… Continue Reading
This is what we read today: Psalm 143, Proverbs 13, and Romans 12. Next week: Psalm 32, the Proverbs chapter of the day, and Monday-Matt 11:2-19, Tuesday-I Cor 15:1-28, Wednesday-Rom 1:1-17, Thursday-Isa 25:1-9, Friday-Col 3:1-17, Saturday-Rom 8:31-39 I love this from C. S. Lewis. “People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain… Continue Reading
Today is Friday, March 12. We are 21 days into our 40 day adventure. I have heard from many that this is helpful, that they are finding a new soul space to love the things that God loves. I hope that is true. On Friday, a little later in the morning, I always write a… Continue Reading