A week ago Wednesday, a man from our church took me to lunch, and we met with the man’s previous pastor. This same man had taken Elaine and me to visit this pastor’s mega church last September, and I had written it off as a …
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AJ has outdone herself with this post!
Read MoreStream of consciousness from driving in my car
Ok, so imagine this: our entire pastoral team, after Tuesday’s team meeting, goes to the Golden Leaf for Thai food. In a freak accident, we are all killed because they garnished with arsenic instead of curry. What would happen at NFC? Would all the people …
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At NFC, we’ve held to the “every service the same” mantra for over 15 years, because we say we don’t want to split into little homogenous groups. We’ve said we want diversity (by which we primarily are speaking about generational diversity…our racial and socioeconomic diversity …
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By the way, I ought to give credit to someone for starting me (again) down this road of reconsidering preaching. Bob Hyatt, who I got to actually meet in person, who generously offered to meet for coffee and I haven’t yet taken him up on …
Read MoreConfessions and Questions
My confession? I like to preach. In fact, there are times like the last two Sundays where I feel like it’s part of what I was born to do. I love speaking the truth that God is present. I love, absolutely love, when I can …
Read MoreSunday, blog addiction, blog block, and other blatherings
One might look at my blog and assume that… “I’ve lost, that bloggin’ feeling…whoa that bloggin’ feeling…” I promise you, my four faithful blog readers, that it is not the case. I publicly went on record with my desire to kick my computer blog addiction …
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Yesterday was a good day in worship. We’ve asked several people from within the community to offer a reflection at the end of each service in advent on that week’s theme. Yesterday’s theme was hope, and Walt Everly shared beautifully and powerfully. I was really …
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North Carolina 40 Originally uploaded by gkoskela. In honor of Jimmy!
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