What a day we had at The Message Church yesterday! It’s not every day that you are privileged to be able to ordain someone as a pastor, even more so when that person is one of your best friends. With the help of his father, pastor Bill Tyndall, I was blessed to be able to [...]
I’m being attacked by a foreign substance! For my entire life, spring has been one of my most favorite times of the years. While it still is, one of the markers that Spring has sprung is becoming my nemesis — pollen! I’m snorting, sniffing and snotting like I’ve never done in my life and it [...]
I’m excited about Sunday. I’m typically always excited about Sunday. Ever since I’ve gotten my “preach” back on, Sundays have become a day that I look forward to with anticipation. I find it so interesting that what used to be laborious work in the past has become a point of divine encounter in the present. [...]
I’ve discovered the single identifying mark that delineates you as “old.” Unfortunately, it isn’t a new phenomena for me; its actually been noticeable, at least by me, for a couple of years. Since I’d never seen it before, on me, I wasn’t able to readily identify it. It was only through living with it over [...]
Scenes that seem randomly filmed can sometimes tell a story that would otherwise be incapable of being expressed with words. My son-in-law recorded what may appear as just a series of disjointed images during Christmas at my parents’ home in Chadbourn, NC in December 2010. Watching the video, the story plays out for me because [...]
Riding down the street today, two young gentlemen approximately 50 yards in front of me stepped out into the road. It was obvious that they were oblivious to the fact that a car was coming. I blew the horn to get their attention. They continued to ever so slowly mosey across the street, only tossing a [...]
On Friday morning I woke in Curitiba, Brazil. I attended class in the morning, caught a flight in the afternoon and was in Rio de Janeiro by four in the afternoon. I caught another flight that night and landed in Atlanta ten hours and 5,000 miles later. After catching yet another flight on Saturday morning, [...]
Today is travel day… again. After the morning class, we’ll be making a dash across Curitiba to get to the airport. Bittersweet. I’m so excited about getting back and beginning to apply what I’ve learned. The future burns brighter than ever after two weeks in Brazil. Being here always cleans out my spiritual ears in [...]
There is a very distinctive smell that I associate with Brazil. Garlic. Way back in the early 80′s when I first moved to Brazil, I didn’t know what cooking garlic smelled like. Every morning I’d wake up and smell this smell that was unlike any that my memory banks could categorize. It took me months [...]
My head hurts. I don’t think I’ve ever had to process as much as I have over the past week and a half; I don’t think I’ve ever been exposed to what I have been exposed to… I know I haven’t. I don’t even have doubts about what I’m supposed to do with it all. [...]
