I love it when somebody “gets it.” Misconceptions, illusions, outright lies and then, suddenly, the light comes on. The look on their face is priceless. The change that comes about in their life is nothing short of miraculous. Keeping it can be work. Oh, what complicated webs we can weave! Destroying the lie of who [...]

All levity aside, I am a bit concerned about Hurricane Irene. More properly stated, I’m concerned about all the hype that occurred around Hurricane Irene. For us here in North Carolina, she is now history. Yet, they still are not diminishing their prognostications of doom for the northeast. It is rather obvious, it was not about the [...]

Living in a beach community has its perks. It also has its downside. One of the downsides is raising its interesting head… hurricanes. In particular, one named Irene, is “bearing down” on Wilmington, NC and the mentality here is something akin to the end of the world. A decade ago, moving into Wilmington, we were [...]

I have always thought small groups were important in the church. Ever since reading Roland Allen’s Spontaneous Growth of the Early Church and rediscovering (perhaps discovering for the first time) the growth of the church in Acts, I knew that most of the small groups I participated in came no where close to the cellular [...]

Ok, I shouldn’t have used the exclamation mark in the headline. It wasn’t a “!” event. I thought someone was standing behind me shaking my chair; my monitor was jostling back and forth, visibly; my table was mildly bouncing. It was an earthquake, not an EARTHQUAKE! Everybody in the office was saying the same thing: “Did [...]

I ate at a place that I’d forgotten all about the other night while in Chattanooga. “TheYellow Deli” group fled the city back in 1979 amidst much controversy and charges of cult activity. Officially called the “Twelve Tribes” at this point, they made a forced evacuation from Chattanooga to Vermont and only recently returned and reopened [...]

I have a GPS on my iPhone and have the Tom-Tom application on it that allows it to function just like the standalone version. I will confess that I thoroughly enjoy having it in my car, even when I know where I’m going. “Samantha,” my GPS “companion” who tells me what to do, is a [...]

Riding down the highway yesterday I saw a bumper sticker: “Obamanos” Yeah. That’s what has happened. And they said it wasn’t going to hurt. I think I’m going to do my own bumper sticker: “Obamaectomy: the removal of a malignant Obama”

I find it interesting how something that is so out of the normal in your average day to day affairs, that when it is introduced, even fleetingly, can carry such power to transform the way you see things. We did church normally yesterday, only it wasn’t normal at all. A sword used in a symbolic [...]