Easter has come, but not gone because resurrection happens every day for us, especially every Sunday as it is a mini-Easter. Billy Strayhorn says the world consists of “Good Friday” people, but the church is filled with “Easter” people. I believe that, and I believe that our “guests” saw that in us ...

I have recently been re-reading C.S. Lewis’ marvelous book, Mere Christianity. Lewis wrote Mere Christianity after his conversion to belief in Christ following years of atheism. He was also a scholar who worked at Oxford University in England. Mere Christianity exhibits Lewis’ u...

Last year a group of pastors and laity from our Western North Carolina Conference met to discuss the concerns of our conference and the whole of United Methodism. For some time I felt God pushing me, and pushing us as United Methodists, to come to grips with our future through our theological/doctri...

What Christmas present do we really want? Upon surveying my present needs, I lack for nothing; I have plenty of food, enough clothes to keep me warm, a house to protect me from the weather, a computer to keep me informed and help me to communicate, a cell phone to keep in touch, a wonderful wife and...

Not long ago, I heard someone criticizing a father for not contributing to what she thought was the proper amount of time and effort to his family. I asked her if she knew the family, but she shook her head, stating that she had simply observed a snippet of their lives. She was very cross and even o...

I am just loving our open class on Wednesday nights where we look at the scriptures used for the sermon of the previous Sunday. Last night we examined Jesus’ view of evil and designation of who was perpetrating it. The teachers of the law from Jerusalem (3:22) came to see Jesus whom they had heard w...

Having only recently come back to work from hip surgery, I continue to be overwhelmed by your well wishes and love. Each day during my recovery, I received a load of letters and emails containing great thoughts and expressing prayers that are most meaningful. Coupled with these missives were weeks o...

I was reading Oswald Chamber’s great devotional today, My Utmost for His Highest, where he was using the passage Matthew 5:25 (The Message):

25 Come to terms quickly with your accuser Or say you’re out on the street and an old enemy accosts you. Don’t lose a minute. Make the first mov...

Hello Friends,

As I write this today, my heart is both heavy and excited. As Christians in 2011, we face a number of attacks from many areas of our world, but then again, this is not new as it has occurred since the time of Jesus. Due to a media that keeps us abreast of news like never before in hi...

I am still basking in the afterglow of Easter with all that went into that effort. Our worship services were exceptionally well-attended and profoundly spiritual. We must give credit to our musicians from the choir, soloists, instrumentalists, and to our leaders Karen, Cynthia, Greg, and Donald. We ...