Well, the Carolina Panthers, my favorite NFL team, didn’t make the playoffs this year, so I’ve decided I’m giving up sports. I’ve had it all. I’m giving up football in the fall, baseball in the summer, and basketball in the winter. Here are
The Seven Things a Pastor Has to Do
Imagine Church is blessed with a wonderful Personnel Team that includes Amy Davis (Team Leader), Becky and Jimmy Ferguson, Susan Phillips, and the pastor. In recent days, the team has been meeting individually with members of the church professional staff
Where Are the Heroes Today?
Eighty years ago, in the summer of 1940, Western civilization was threatened with defeat. Liberty, the principle on which it rests, was menaced by a man who despised freedom. Adolf Hitler, the dictator of Nazi Germany, had conquered Western Europe. He challenged Britain,
God Never Gives Up Hope
A couple of years ago, there was a young woman in the news by the name of Jennifer Wilbanks. You may have heard her story. She was a 32-year-old medical assistant from Duluth, Georgia, who told her fiance that she was going
Good Stories
How many of us grew up watching cartoons? Back in the ’60’s, Hanna-Barbera and Warner Brothers made great cartoons. But then came the ’70’s and ’80’s and a long dry spell of absolutely horrid cartoons — short on beauty, lousy music, anemic
The Glad Entrance of God
Although it looks nice on a Christmas card, it is not really much fun to put your baby to sleep in a horse feeding-trough because there is nowhere else except the dirty floor. It must be a dreadful thing for a
What Is It Like to Be in a Family?
As you gather with your family this Christmas, I hope you will remember that Jesus was part of a family, too. Mary and Joseph married, and they had other children after Jesus. Jesus, we know, had four brothers: James, and Jude, and Joseph,
What’s in a Name?
The naming of a child was as important in the first century as it is today. In fact, there were two names given to the baby of Bethlehem, and each one helps us know more about him. “He shall be called
Advent Answers
Advent comes from a Latin word which means “coming,” and the season (which begins this Sunday, November 29) proclaims the coming of Christ and builds each week toward the celebration of the nativity on Christmas Day. Here are some questions
The Thanksgiving Story
It hasn’t always been easy for Americans to agree about Thanksgiving. In his essay, “The Thanksgiving Story,” Jerry Wilson reports that George Washington proclaimed a National Day of Thanksgiving in 1789, although some were opposed to it. There was discord