Fixer-Upper

Jun 8, 2015 | Staff Blog

Cindy and I don’t watch a lot of television anymore.  But we record and watch a program called “Fixer Upper” all the time. On this program they buy tired old homes and fix them up.  Thus the name.  In the space of an hour you can see them take an old, sometimes...

That’s What Friends Are For

May 26, 2015 | Staff Blog

The year: 1986. The place: freshman dorm on the campus of Ouachita Baptist University. The song: “Friends” You know the words, “And friends are friends forever if the Lord’s the Lord of them . . . though it’s hard to let you go, in the Father’s hands we know, that a...

The New Jim Crow

May 12, 2015 | Staff Blog

Over the past six months or so, I’ve decided that I need to do a better job of listening to my African American brothers and sisters. Not the kind of listening where you’re trying to think of a response, but the kind of listening that affects your heart, mind and...

Hi I’m Logan…

Apr 23, 2015 | Staff Blog

Sometime in the fall of 2010 one of my former youth named McKenna, 19 at the time, approached me after a game of ultimate frisbee and said “Hey, I’ve been thinking I need to get into a program or something.” At that point we had never discussed his drug and alcohol...

The Week After Easter

Apr 9, 2015 | Staff Blog

What do you do the day after everything changes? This Monday, I walked into our sanctuary and sat for a while.  The sanctuary felt much different than the day before.  Sunday’s glorious music had given way to a powerful silence that seemed to carry echoes of...

Every Need

Mar 26, 2015 | Staff Blog

Psalm 34:19 (NLT) stresses that “The  righteous face many troubles , but the Lord rescues them from each and every one.” People have all kinds of problems. Mostly, we are reminded to pray for those who have critical physical needs. Along with that,...

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