I am thinking and praying this morning about missionary endeavors. I encourage you to make mission work a part of your prayer today and throughout the coming month. October will be a month of mission emphasis for Jan and me. This evening our local congregation has a guest speaker scheduled as a first step toward …
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Sunday Report: Iglesia de Cristo-Park Plaza
Early yesterday morning I wrote about our plans to visit with the Iglesia de Cristo de Park Plaza. Today I can share more details and information. The occasion of our visit with the church was the fourth anniversary of the establishment of the Park Plaza Hispanic congregation. Four years ago, the church began with four …
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It’s Sunday Again: Dios le bendiga!
Today I have the privilege of visiting the iglesia de Cristo-Park Plaza in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I will be the guest teacher in the Bible class and the guest speaker for the worship. I am looking forward to meeting with the church, hoping to provide encouragement. Afterward, we will share together a fellowship meal. I first …
It’s Sunday Again: Priorities
Today I conclude my full-time preaching assignment with the Main and Oklahoma Church. A couple of days to conclude the month, and my full-time ministry assignment will also end. I have ended ministry assignments before–and always begun another one. My ministry now counts 40 years of full-time ministry, six churches (one with two tenures), two …
It’s Sunday Again: God is Present
The words are easy to say, often difficult to believe. Our gracious God has brought us to this point in time through whatever difficulties and challenges, mistakes and problems we may have experienced–even those we inadvertently brought upon ourselves. He has promised his presence as he walks beside us into the future. Who are we …
It’s Sunday Again: God’s Plan
Perhaps nothing matters more to the success and spiritual vitality of God’s people than understanding God’s purpose and plan correctly. As a church, we can go through a lot of motions that seek to please, worship, and adore God, but if we fail to connect with his eternal purpose, we fail to participate in and …
It’s Sunday Again: Amazing
Amazing! No other word says it better! John Newton wrote about “Amazing Grace.” Mark wrote about an amazing man–amazing works and amazing words. Amazing stories! Who is this amazing man? Who is this “Jesus”? Mark leaves no doubt about his answer: “The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.” With power …
It’s Sunday Again: “Together Time”
Selective reading! We read verses to support the points we want to make, to reinforce what we already know or what we want to teach. We do not read carefully and openly. We are often too focused and too little aware. There are aspects of well-known verses that we overlook. The early church spent time …
It’s Sunday Again: Upside Down
I am preaching today–so much I would like to say and so little time. We must cease trying to operate the church in the same way other organizations operate. Luke’s gospel employs reversals as a literary device to highlight comparisons, choices, and contrasts. The more obvious reversals include well-known stories such as the Good Samaritan, …
It’s Sunday Again: Reflections on Life
It’s Sunday again–typical, atypical. I will teach my Bible class this morning, but no other “official” duties. My mind overflowed on my early morning walk today–thinking, praying, dreaming…. Life is about beginnings and endings. Today’s reality includes things unthinkable last week–the death of a young lady just beginning life, married within the last year, just …