It's Like Herding Cats

Sacred Spaces "Everything on earth will worship you; they will sing your praises, shouting your name in glorious songs." Psalms ...

Thanksgiving Days remembered- with my family gathering in my aunts home, just across the street from the mill village that my family worked...

Beginning Again Last week ended with a whine. The whine could have emenated from the youth who were here at New Hope for a Friday night lo...

In Good Hands Little girls gather around their leaders, kneeling before they pray. They are asked if there's anything God needs to hear...

Is that okay? My father in love is a precise builder. He's a great man, a true believer in Christ, and a model for me. I thank God for ...

Remembrance In the society in which we live, there are few times when we pause - much less stop. But we stop today. No mail. No banks. F...

Semper Fidelis Today marks the 229th birthday of the Marine Corps. Even as I type this, "America's 911" is engaged in fierce ...

Critics and Believers Today I was doing some work on the computer that involved combining a large amount of text together. Everything was g...

Training Bobby's been coming to church a week now, and from what I can tell, he seems to be enjoying it. Playing with the other little ...

Just another day I had just finished my daily devotional time and thought I'd spend a moment checking in with the world. In today's...

After The Storm We're coming up on two weeks since Hurricane Ivan passed by, and it seems we are in a holding pattern. Due to the wides...

"Blue is my favorite color" Mark 10:15 (Msg) "Mark this: Unless you accept God's kingdom in the simplicity of a chi...

Starting Over Sitting here today, my first day back after Ivan ravaged the Gulf coast, I can look out and see trees stripped of their folia...

Picking Up the Pieces 1 John 4:12 (Msg) No one has seen God, ever. But if we love one another, God dwells deeply within us, and his lo...

There's power, and then there's POWER We are still experiencing pretty gusty winds of I'd guess 50 mph, but it's nothing lik...

Keepers and Leavers Ivan bears down on the Gulf coast as I write this, and we're still here. But literally millions of people have evac...

Storm Warnings Here on the Gulf Coast, we are under the gun for Hurricane Ivan. As it approached today, the people in our area reacted in d...

A Rising Tide One of the miracles of last week was in the approach of Hurricane Frances to the Gulf Coast. After battering across Florida, ...

Forecasting Everybody around here has become interested in the weather it seems. Here in the western panhandle, we are beginning to think ...

Searching Day-glo orange signs flag the corner of every street in the neighborhood our church sits in. At first, I really didn't pay an...