It's Like Herding Cats

Great article by Jim Drake. A sample: For follow up this year, we have  ADOPTED  the kids that came to camp. We are bridging and build...

I have friends who have invested their lives into bringing Jesus' message to people who don't know what it means to be part of a co...

Ed Stetzer writes in Outreach Magazine: Church leaders in America also tend to think big is good and bigger is better, but Jesus says that...

A local restaurant, Cafe Bienville gives its patrons churches a rebate of a percentage of the meal's cost when the customer brings in t...

This quote got me thinking... "I don’t know why life isn’t constructed to be seamless and safe, why we make such glaring mistakes, t...

Sunday's message as we walked through Paul's second letter to the church at Corinth, centered on just what God would have us unders...

From A Glimpse of New Hope! Most of you know by now that I'm back in school working on getting my Florida teaching credentials. Yes,...

"It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discern...

Last night I watched a man teach boys how to open and close a pocket knife, sharpen an axe, tie a boat to a dock, make a rope longer by joi...

One of the things I have loved about my dive into elementary education has been the rediscovery of children's books. I LOVE THEM! Since...

It's hard. Hard to forgive people who hurt you, who hurt your family, your loved ones, your church family. But as Ann Lamott so aptly p...

From It's Like Herding Cats We've been here at New Hope almost 12 years now, and have (I hope) learned a lot about how to live in...

"The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training--sacrifice. In battle, and in the fa...

Workers Clean A Mosaic Marking the Oldest Church in Israel Mosaic has several acceptable definitions, but I like this one: "A combi...

From It's Like Herding Cats Just by writing that title I've made some of you smile as you enjoy a moment of zen and merriment (ca...

Bunny asked me yesterday if I had all the devotionals I have written over the years in one file that I could send her. She was thinking abo...

From It's Like Herding Cats Bunny and I attended the Lewis School band's Spring concert last Thursday night to see some of our kids...

Had a kind of tough day yesterday. Since I'm a pastor, you should interpret that to mean that Church didn't go well. Wasn't fo...

There were several moments I remember from my educational pursuits. A third grade teacher who read to us, my fourth grade teacher's ki...

On July 15th, 1920, on the wrong side of the tracks down on Roff Avenue near "Mr Willingham's Textile Mill", a little girl wa...