Pastor’s Blog

Just as we were launching Imagine Church in the fall of 2014, I attended the Catalyst Conference in Atlanta where, on a whim, I signed up for a workshop titled “The Culture of Chick-fil-A”. Surprisingly, it turned out to be

As 2020 is the year for a presidential election, August will bring the national political conventions, with a difference this time — both political parties will apparently hold virtual conventions in the age of Covid-19. Maybe that will actually be

Every Friday in the early evening, an old man walked from his house down to the ocean carrying a bucket of shrimp. As the sun started its descent and the evening waves gently lapped the shore, he walked to the

The country lost an elder statesman widely acclaimed as an American hero with the passing of John Lewis on July 17, 2020. I shared Sunday evening at our outdoor life group about my recollection of him from election night, November

I learned recently that we are not only divided between red states and blue states; America is divided between cat states and dog states. That’s right. There are states, primarily up north, with more cats than dogs (at least 20%

If humor softens a hardened spirit, maybe it’s time for some humor in the age of the coronavirus. I am grateful to my daughter, Lauren, for sending these, and I thought I would share them with you: 1. So let

In some of my reading last week I ran across something I hadn’t thought of before. The central symbol of the Christian faith — the cross — points in every direction: north, south, east, and west. I find myself reflecting

Last week I did something I had never done before: I went on a sibling vacation. My older brother, Henry, younger sister, Pam, and I went to the beach together for a few days. We laughed, reminisced, recalled old stories,

(This week’s devotional is written by someone most of you have never met, but who worships with us online each week from his home in Signal Mountain, Tennessee. His wife, Jennifer, is a student at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Charlotte

We are all aware of the events that have taken place in cities and communities across the United States since the death of George Perry Floyd, Jr., on May 25, after a Minneapolis police officer had his knee on Floyd’s