Why we serve others
Tweet He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, “Whoever wants to first must be last of all and servant of all.” – Mark 9:35 (NRSV) What does that passage mean to you? What do you think great is? Have you met someone who served all those around you? Was he/she somehow first? [...]
Read More →What is The Point of Church
Tweet My son had surgery Friday. Quite honestly, when I first heard he had to be put under and worked on I was terrified. Partially because when I took him to the doctor a couple of days before, I was not expecting to hear that, but mostly because I think that is the response that [...]
Read More →God Makes You Beautiful
Tweet If I can tell you one thing for this New Year, one thing that I hope you will remember, one thing that can give you the hope that we all need as days go on, one thing that is absolutely true of you and true of God, it is that God will make you [...]
Read More →The Week of Christmas and Is All Well?
Tweet Many of us are already sick of Christmas by the time we get to this week. We wonder if we are on the last lap of a race that we begin to think there is simply no hope of winning. The music, that we first loved to hear around Thanksgiving, has grown tired and worn us [...]
Read More →Are You an Angel?
Tweet By Rev. Garrett Andrew I once heard a story about a young boy who stood outside a store looking through the widow. A woman walked by and saw the tattered clothes and dirty fingers of the child that gave away his poverty. She saw him looking in and said, “What are you looking at in there?” [...]
Read More →Churches Grow at Christmastime
Tweet I was having a conversation with another minister. Us minister types like to use one another to talk shop, and to say the things we would never say to others. Well here I was speaking to this minister and he says, “You know what? Our churches about to get fuller because for some reason [...]
Read More →Church and the Holidays
Tweet I was having a conversation with another minister. Us minister types like to use one another to talk shop, and to say the things we would never say to others. Well here I was speaking to this minister and he says, “You know what? Our churches about to get fuller because for some reason people always come [...]
Read More →Hope for the world still has a place in the church.
Tweet Christians are often a wildly pessimistic lot. Anyone who knows much about the Bible would find that kind of strange, I would imagine. How could those who profess faith in a God of promise, in a God who declares, “Behold I make all things new,” and “All things are possible with God,” and who [...]
Read More →Comfort the Afflicted, Afflict the Comfortable
Tweet There was a saying that newspaper reporters use to have about their work. “We are here,” they would say, “to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” It is an admirable work. To dive into the dark places of society and let people know what is going on. To inevitably cause change through reporting.
Read More →God Is Love
Tweet I need to say that I am not a writer. What I mean is that I have never felt particularly called to write. I am a preacher and a pastor. That, I feel called to do, but writing, well this avenue of communication makes me nervous. Maybe because I cannot see how you are [...]
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