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When I was a young girl growing up in North Carolina, my grandmother often watched the Rev. Billy Graham on television. An Episcopalian by marriage, she kept her Presbyterian roots alive by engaging with the revival aspects of Graham’s preaching. One day, I walked through the living room, where she sat in her rocker. I noticed
I grew up in a family that didn’t make extra stops on road trips. We got up early and drove as far and as fast and as long as we could before we had to stop. So, I missed a lot of roadside markets, scenic overlooks, and unusual tourist
“We all know sometimes life hates and troubles,
Can make you wish you were born in another time and space.
But you can bet your lifetimes that and twice it’s double,
That god knew exactly where he wanted you to be placed.
So make sure when you say you’re in it, but not of I,
You’re not helping
by Richard Hendricks, Facilities Manager
A couple of weeks ago, in Scott’s sermon, he told a joke about a guy searching for his keys. This reminded me of the trip I took with friends to the Smokies the third week of October. For me, I was searching for a little R&R and fall foliage. On the day we left, it
Snow days, at least the first one or two, are when my mind gets closest to the sabbath mind. It’s the imposed and instant removal of options … or maybe the shared permission not to do most of the things that fill most of our days that brings a different way of being.
“What are you waiting for?” can often be less a question than a declarative nudge to get started or to get moving on a project. Its corollary is, “there’s no time like the present!” There’s often a sense of urgency in the voice of someone offering these prompts: get going, don’t dawdle.
“I don’t know about you, but there were a few questions where I wanted to say, ‘OK, God, but … how hard do I have to, exactly, persevere in resisting evil? Because it seems like evil might have the upper hand these days, and we’re tired. Do I have to serve, seek and serve Christ
As a small child, I was a member of a Baptist Church. When I became a young adult, I moved from a Baptist Church to the Church of God in Christ (COGIC). But no matter how hard I tried to study it, I couldn’t understand the teachings of their denomination; they just
by Nathan Brasfield, Director of Youth and Community Ministries
It is circa 734 BCE. The one nation previously known as Israel remains tragically divided into two kingdoms. The southern kingdom known as Judah faces threats from both the northern kingdom known as Israel and the nation of Syria to join forces with them against a still larger threat