Acts 1:4-11 When I read a Christian magazine, I am inundated by advertisements urging me to come to one conference or another. A week’s conference on pastoral mentoring with Jack Hayford. The Dynamics of Scripture for Christian Spiritual Transformation with Richard Foster and Dallas Willard. The Priceless Legacy of Cross-Centered Preaching with John MacArthur, John…
Three pastors met during the week and the conversation turned to the Sunday offering and how they used the money that was collected. The Baptist pastor said, “I draw a small circle in the middle of the room and throw the offering up in the air. Everything that lands outside of the circle is for…
Acts 1:1-5 When my daughters were young, in 1989, we bought a Eurail pass and visited friends throughout Europe. As we traveled from city to city on the train, I read to them a book, as I did on every vacation we took. On this trip I read The Princess Bride by William Goldman. I…
Genesis 50 I would imagine that in this week following our Easter Sunday service, there have been some conversations about forgiveness. Forgiveness was the theme in two of the resurrection stories told last week and then we had a dramatic presentation about the reality of forgiveness at the end of the service. So I as…
Luke 19:29-44 It was Palm Sunday, and the mother’s 5 year old son had to stay home from church because of a strep throat. When the rest of the family returned home carrying palm branches, the little boy asked what they were for. His mother explained, “People held them over Jesus’ head as he walked…