Why God Doesn’t Recognize Your Plans

For the past three years, I have been a family group Bible study leader with the Baptist Collegiate Ministries at the College of William and Mary. Leading this family group has been one of the greatest blessings I have received at college. Looking back on my first...

Big Sundays

What’s the biggest Sunday of the year for your church? I posed that question to the “Life and Work of the Minister” class I’m teaching this semester, and thought I’d pass on some of the results. The class consists of 28 students from a...

The Me-First Philosophy Thrives in Pews, Pulpits

In “The Last Battle,” the final volume of “The Chronicles of Narnia,” there is a delightful scene toward the end of the story. A group of dwarfs sits huddled together in a tight little knot thinking they are in a pitch black, smelly hole of a...

Shelves full of memories

By John Pierce Word out of Catoosa County, Ga., is that Carlock’s Food King is closing. If you’ve never lived around there that news is irrelevant. But those of us who consider the Boynton Community to be home are feeling a sense of loss. The Boynton of my...