I believe we can whittle down our contemporary celebration of Halloween to two essentials: #1: free candy; lots of it and more calories than our kids could ever count. And #2: fantasy-to-freaky costumes; kids getting the opportunity to present themselves in a wannabe identity – though hopefully not in some subliminal alter-ego outfit. I get … [Read more…]
In just 2 days, we’re all going to be inundated with the annual swarm of costumed kids knocking at our doors, reciting those hollow-ween words, “Trick or Treat;” hollow because no kid comes prepared to do a trick anymore. They’re banging on our doors for one thing and one thing only, “a candy treat!” On … [Read more…]
From 6th grade on, I knew what God’s Will for life meant. So, I threw myself headlong into preparing for my Divinely-ordained career. But 2½ years into my college education, my prepping to be a Health & Physical Education teacher came to a screeching halt. In the middle of my junior year, I transferred to … [Read more…]
Whenever there are five Sundays in a month, we celebrate our Lord in a different fashion. Instead of the usual order of service that includes a 30-minute sermon, our Praise Band leads us through about a dozen contemporary songs that are interspersed with prayers of thanksgiving and praise “from the floor.” This week we will … [Read more…]
While my wife and I were away on vacation last week, our church family held an impromptu business meeting. It seems that both Sundays when I was absent from the pulpit, the sanctuary was packed!; the congregation deducing a direct cause-effect correlation. So it’s sending us back down to Hilton Head next Monday; only this … [Read more…]
