It’s Sunday Again: Family

We will be with our family again today–our eighth different family reunion location in eight weeks. Over the past seven weeks we have visited and worshipped with our brothers and sisters in Tulsa, Lexington, Nashville, McAlester, Solola, Antigua, and Guatemala City. Except for Jan’s preference for English-speaking worship, each week has been a unique and …

Guatemala, March 2012

The work accomplished in Guatemala was beyond expectations. The brief summary is visits to six local churches for studies, preaching and teaching; visits and studies with several different groups of brothers and sisters; individual studies to answer Bible questions and strengthen and train leaders and potential leaders; a visit to Health Talents clinic in Chichicastenango/Lemoa; …

Education and Foolishness

We don’t know what to do with education. I regularly hear comments and read sermon segments that belittle study, academic pursuits, and learning. Of course, most of these are references to advanced learning and collegiate or graduate ministry training. On the surface, it appears the church is still “for” education–we maintain our Bible schools and …

It’s Sunday Again: “Going about it backwards”

My question today is simple: Have we focused on the changed life so much that we have forgotten that the foundational element in Christianity is the exchanged life? We are “into” transformation, valid Bible principle, essential, ultimate goal. Formation is big business. Spiritual formation sounds good–who wouldn’t want it? But….I fear that too much of …

It’s Always About People

Jan and I have lived in several different places during forty plus years of marriage–four states, thirty-one years of full-time ministry in six churches (25 years of full-time ministry with three churches), and a dozen years in two universities. We have enjoyed each place we have lived for its uniqueness. We have roamed pine forests …