I am where I am in my beliefs after decades of living. They didn’t come overnight. Comparing them today with thirty years ago creates the sense that, either then or now, I am or was a pod-person. Remember the old movie, Invasion of the Body Snatchers? With the exception of the panic, that is how [...]
Someone said something about it raining? In 1999, one month after moving to Wilmington, three hurricanes in a row blew through Port City. The last in the series was Hurricane Floyd. It dumped right at 20″ of water in a 24 hour period. This crazy tropical depression which is currently an unnamed hussy, though it may [...]
Ahhh… don’t you just love it?!
Uh, yeah…
If I ever thought I was busy before, I suppose I simply had no clue what those words really meant. I enjoy writing. If you’ve followed my blogging over the last several years you could probably tell that. I love being audacious, speaking from the cuff of what I’m experiencing, sharing the discoveries of a [...]
Today was the grand opening of The Message Church. Since the last Sunday in February, we’ve been working steadily towards this date. It often seemed like we were plodding; without the proverbial two pennies to rub together, we set off on a grand adventure with absolutely no resources available to us. Today, we were able [...]
And no, I don’t know what it means…
I was over at Lincoln Elementary School this morning with our Outreach Coordinator Sandy Tyndall and pastor Tony Figureiro serving up bagels to the teachers and staff. Those folks love bagels! To watch them coming into the teacher’s lounge at seven in the morning and their eyes catching the table piled high with bagels, cream cheese, [...]
I just read an excellent piece by John Blake at CNN.com His premise is that the majority of teens are becoming “fake Christians,” i.e., they are embracing what Kenda Dean, a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and the author of “Almost Christian,” a “mutant” form of Christianity and parents (and churches) are probably responsible. Dean [...]
Living in a coastal area that tends to be hurricane prone, events like Hurricane Earl always stir up lots of activity. Everyone refers to the storm by it’s second name, as in “Earl,” not “Hurricane Earl.” and it sounds like they’re referring to a person: “Where’s Earl?” “Reckon Earl will get here before tonight?” “I [...]
