Last night I finished my fourth book this year - Ken Follett's World Without End. His two books are monster books; this one with over 1,000 pages. These books...
My latest book was The Essential Guide to Motorcycle Travel. It was a pretty good how-to book about all the gear and considerations for going on motorcycle trips. ...
My second book of the year was The Longest Ride by Emilio Scotto, a ten-year motorcycle venture around the world. This is quite an amazing story and worth the read...
Well, 2008 has started off as a reading year for me. One of my gift cards was to Joseph Beth's Bookstore here in Lexington, so I bought two books I have been interested...
Well, the big news in my life is my new Hunter 22 sailboat. I purchased it on Ebay in August and drove to Atlanta to pick it up over Labor Day. Here is my first...
One of the issues that I continue to struggle with is the length of the worship service. I know that some churches routinely plan their worship services to last a...
That's my granddaughter! Lizzy came to visit us in Lexington this week while her daddy was on a mission trip in Macedonia. She was the star attraction at church...
Big news for me - I finally solved a Rubik's cube. I cheated, of course, because I used the directions I found on-line, but hey! I am still proud. It's a...
I can't believe that it has been almost two months since I have written in my blog. That's a shame. It's probably a sign that I am too busy. But it is also...
Today I am remembering a perfect day of sailing about ten years ago. Here is the way I described it then: A Perfect Day of SailingBy Mickey AndersLake Pickthorne was...
One of the greatest obstacles to your growing is the fear of making a fool of yourself. Any real step forward implies the risk of failure. And the really important steps imply...
Okay, so I hate being sick! Preachers are not supposed to get sick. I have things to do. I have too much to do to be sick. I have been sick a good bit...
I have been tempted to respond to all the publicity about the "discovery of the tomb of Jesus," but I have not yet watched the program. I have it recorded at home and...
On Monday, I went to hear the premiere Disciples of Christ preacher, Fred Craddock. It was a conference for ministers on preaching for Holy Week. Fred is such...
Liberal/Conservative I still plan to preach a sermon that I have threatened to preach for years. It is entitled, "Why I am a conservative/Why I am a liberal." I am...
The new DisciplesWorld magazine hit my desk this week and contains an interesting article reflecting on The Purpose Driven Life. Probably everybody has reviewed the book...
USA Today has an excellent opinion article about the Bible vs. science. Here is a good paragraph: As the evangelical writer and religion professor Randall Balmer points...
Pat Robertson's Regent University held a forum last week trying to lay out the conservative Christian strategy for 2008. The big news was that they should beware because...
At least one Baptist church in Miami is taking advantage of the Super Bowl to do evangelism. The article in the ContraCosta Times begins this way. Football's faithful...
A New York acting company is presenting a play about what makes evangelicals tick. Since April the troupe interviewed Christians and edited their own musical about...
Our church cabinet had a planning retreat last weekend, in which we performed a SWOT analysis of the church to determine our Strenghts, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and...
This Sunday's text is Luke 2:41-52, the story of Jesus in the Temple. I have a sermon from several years ago that I am re-working for Sunday. It starts out with some...
This will be the year of Luke. As I have looked at the lectionary texts for the year, I find that Luke is the Gospel of focus in Lectionary Year C. I plan to stick with...
A few days ago, I tried to explain to my son that there were two kinds of people, but he interrupted me immediately and said, "That's wrong, Dad. There are ten kinds of...
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