The Notebook

From my friend Tim Stevens People leave churches every day…sometimes even when they’ve been attending that church for years or even decades. But for some reason–a time comes when they decide they need to go somewhere else. Some of those reasons are good. Some of those reasons are b...

Merry Christmas! The Christmas story centers on Jesus’ birth and introduces us to God’s plan to win us back to Himself. We speak of the “incarnation” of Jesus – the act of His “taking on flesh” so that He might walk among us, love us, and ultimately give His life for us. In Christ,...

Second, you  need to determine what kind of person you are going to be in this life. This is an issue of character and integrity. I don’t know any better description of what Jesus was like in character than in Galatians 5 where Paul writes about the fruit of what God’s power does in us [&hellip...

Continuing from my previous post… First, you must determine what is the center of your life. Our solar system is a marvel in many ways, but one that relates to this topic is that all of the planets revolve around one central source of energy, our sun. God set in order our solar system and [&he...

I am sure you have seen them.  Those annoying traffic cameras that cities are using now to catch those who have a tendency to continue through the stop light as it is turns from yellow to red. As I write this there are lawsuits in the city of Cleveland, OH. that state these types of […]...

His actual name is Samuel Joseph Calloway, but we always called him Sammy. Out of ten kids, I was the youngest and Sammy was the next in age to me, just about four years older. Sammy would have been 52 on November 27th. Some of you had the privilege of either knowing Sammy or meeting […]...

That is a law of life.  Look at history.  The Civil Rights movement was nothing until a man came along named Martin Luther King and said, “I have a dream” and he provided leadership.  The NASA space program was nothing until a guy named John Kennedy said, “We’re going to p...

A big car on a wet frozen lake goes nowhere. No traction, no motion. A small bug working its way across a gravel driveway takes forever. Too much friction, too little motion. If you’re stuck, it’s probably because one of these two challenges. There’s not enough traction online. Too...

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It has been awhile since I have blogged. My absence is due in part to my new found role as a “papaw” as we say in the south. Since Caleb has come along, Julie and I have taken on helping Emily with the daily duties of feeding, changing and loving on our new little guy. […]...