As some of you know, my family and I have started looking for a permanent home in Mount Airy. In many ways, of course, that has been a lot of fun. It’s exciting to see new places and to dream of what you might do with a house once you moved into it. But the [...]
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House Hunting with Jesus
Posted in General, Ministry, My Church on July 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Installation and Transformation
Posted in Ministry on June 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On Sunday, May 29th, the people of Calvary Baptist Church in Mount Airy, North Carolina, officially installed me as pastor. Now I’ll have to confess: in one sense all the hoopla seemed a little anticlimactic. After all, everyone in the congregation has received me so warmly—and has made me feel at home so quickly and [...]
Oh, Rapture!
Posted in Current Events, General, Ministry on May 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As I write this, it’s about 4 o’clock in the afternoon on May 21, 2011—the day that some Christian ministries have been proclaiming for months as the guaranteed day that Jesus will return to take His faithful home. Since my latest look at CNN.com shows no indications of sudden theophanies or mass disappearances of believers [...]
The Relentless Rush to Enter Rest
Posted in General, Ministry, My Church on May 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Take my yoke upon you and learn from me…and you will find rest for your souls.” (Matthew 11:29) I’ve been participating in a lot of church committee meetings lately. All in all, that’s a good thing. In fact, it’s something that I requested, since I’ve been trying to use these gatherings as a learning tool [...]
Just Thanks
Posted in General, Ministry, Small Town Life on May 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Friday night here in my new hometown of Mount Airy, NC. Although it’s been a slightly intense week (along with normal tasks of ministry and rich-but-unexpected interactions, I actually had at least one committee meeting every night) tonight has been one of those rare evenings that is extraordinarily rewarding, precisely because it’s so ordinary. After [...]
Lovely Feet or Loose Lips
Posted in Current Events, Ministry, My Church, Small Town Life on May 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“How lovely on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news.” The Prophet Isaiah, Ancient Israel “Loose Lips Sink Ships.” US Civil Defense Slogan, World War 2 I don’t know how many of you are aware of it, but we recently received word in the church office that Calvary Baptist had been [...]
A Minor Twist of Faith
Posted in General, Ministry, My Church, Small Town Life on April 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The church in Mount Airy, NC, that I’ve been serving for almost three whole weeks received a letter in the mail the other day. The letter was from a local family whose 5-month son had been taken to Duke Medical Center to receive treatment for a rare and serious heart condition. As you can imagine, the treatment [...]
The Same Old Ride…But Different
Posted in Ministry, Small Town Life on April 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I finally had a free afternoon to take my first “real bike ride” around my new home town of Mount Airy, NC. I was able to cover just over 18 miles in the time allotted, which is almost the same distance as the typical ride I used to take in my former community of Marshville, [...]
Unpacking Easter
Posted in Ministry, My Church on April 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
For most of the past week or so, I’ve been in the process of unpacking—both at my office in the church and in the home that I’ll be occupying here in Mount Airy. As you probably know, unpacking can be a challenging task, and it’s one that I haven’t quite finished. Of course, the thing [...]
The Greening
Posted in Ministry, My Church, Small Town Life on March 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We’re entering one of my favorite times of year here in Marshville, North Carolina. The fields that surround our community are beginning to turn the most amazing shade of green, as the winter crop of some unknown-to-me grain erupts into vibrant life. Only in pictures of Ireland have I seen a landscape so richly carpeted [...]
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