Blog, Life in the Church
To Advent or Not to Advent, That is the Question
November 28, 2018Being raised in a traditional mill village Southern Baptist church and later practicing faith in…
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Manic Heights. Welcome to the Neighborhood
November 2, 2018In his prophetic book The Secular City (Macmillan Company; New York: 1965) liberal Harvard Divinity…
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The Language of Faith
October 1, 2018The Apostle Paul’s advice to the Corinthian church about the disruption of glossolalia can extend…
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Praying for Your Spiritual Leaders
April 17, 2018In retirement the question I am most often asked by church members is, “how should…
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Culturally dysfunctional?
March 16, 2018It was supposed to be another hot cup of java before teaching morning classes at…
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That Was Then, This Is Now
February 12, 2018Go ahead, think it! This is another geezer whine about the times. Let me assure…
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The Resume Button
January 17, 2018There was a subtle yet profound object lesson during our drive back to North Charleston…
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What 94 Students Taught Me This Semester
December 14, 2017The other day a Post-it Note fell out of an old school paper file I…
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Identify the Cuspers
October 20, 2017Thirty-eight years ago I asked God for guidance during a particularly difficult time in our…
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The Undisciplined Life
September 22, 2017One day I listened to a sermon that altered the direction of my life in…
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Life in a Bubble
August 14, 2017The community surrounding our condominium complex was overrun with a law enforcement presence last week.…
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The Chapter 13 Leader
July 21, 2017Pastor’s and spiritual leaders joined the Good to Great 1 cheering section soon after publication of…
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Crevices, Chasms, and Gold Mines
June 14, 2017Two thousand years later evangelical Christians basically agree that the command in the Great Commission…
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Resurrection People
April 19, 2017In a crazy world professional golfer Bernhard Langer got tangled in a voter fraud story…
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The Baby Boomerang Thing
March 29, 2017It was a lament of the baby boomer generation, the 1961 British parody song My…
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The Teaching Fault-line
March 13, 2017Perhaps it’s a minefield every newbie in the School of Christian Studies has to tiptoe…
