I am sitting in my office after spending the last day and a half at the Baptist State Convention of NC. I witnessed a historical moment, and it breaks my heart. The Baptist State Convention has, for about 18 years, provided 4 giving plan options for churches to contribute their missions giving through the state … Continue reading
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Angel Food Ministry
Our church has recently become an Angel Food Ministry host site. If you are not familiar with Angel Food Ministry, it is a ministry started by Joe & Linda Wingo and Emmanuel Praise Church in Monroe, GA. The purpose of Angel Food is to provide quality food products to individuals and families at very affordable … Continue reading
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Pastoral Envy
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” – Exodus 20:17 I recently learned that coveting is not just an issue of houses, spouses, or cars. Our town is a college town, which … Continue reading
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Which side of the breakwater are we fishing?
I just got back from a two week vacation in northern Michigan. Talk about beautiful country! It is a wonderful place to enjoy the beauty of God’s handiwork. One of the towns we visited was Petoskey, a harbor town right on Lake Michigan. Because it is a harbor, there is a breakwater built out into … Continue reading
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Going, going … gone is the dark cloud?
Like many folks, it seems, I have enjoyed following the experiences of the Student.Go MDG team this summer through this blog. If you are a newcomer to this site, it would be well worth your time to go back over the last several weeks and read the blog posts from the students who have been … Continue reading
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Call Me Old-Fashioned: A Case for VBS
Last Thursday night we finished up another week of Vacation Bible School. The last night of VBS always seems to bring with it a great sense of relief. Months of preparation and planning and a week of dealing with high-energy children comes down to that final night, when you are just glad that you made … Continue reading
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Flipping the Golden Rule
I was listening to the humanist chaplain of Harvard give an interview on American Public Media’s Speaking of Faith. In a discussion about whether or not humanism is a valid religious movement, the chaplain observed, “We just want to be treated like everybody else.” As I listened, I began to think about those words. Those … Continue reading
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Deprogramming God
I have been involved with an online discussion of Donald Miller’s Blue Like Jazz. In the most recent chapter we were discussing, Miller writes, Too much of our time is spent trying to chart God on a grid, and too little is spent allowing our hearts to feel awe. By reducing Christian spirituality to formula, … Continue reading
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Using All The Tools
This past Sunday, we had a representative of Trans World Radio visiting with us in worship. He took a few minutes to share with us about the ministry of Trans World Radio. Their mission statement is simple: to reach the world for Christ by mass media so that lasting fruit is produced. TWR broadcasts Christian … Continue reading
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Is It Really “Sincere Concern”?
On March 28, a fax came into our church office addressed to me by name. The fax was a letter signed “From Concerned Christians”. The letter began by quoting 2 Samuel 23:3. It went on to say, “There is a man, with the ambition to become a ruler, proselytizing among the towns and villages of North … Continue reading
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