Tom Bandy tells that some fishermen in a small boat went to their favorite spot, about five miles from the coast.  In the late afternoon, […]

It may surprise you to hear that when Jesus died, his primary followers didn’t band together and say, “Let’s keep the dream alive.”  Instead, they […]

Let me share some interesting facts from a book by Terrence Dickinson:  If we could travel at the speed of light, it would take us […]

One of my favorite passages in the Bible is found in Luke 5:1-11.  The disciples had been fishing all night and had caught nothing.  And […]

One of my heroes in the church is Wallace Chappell, who died just a few years ago.  For a time he was Senior Pastor at […]

While a student at the Duke Divinity School, I was a member of the school’s Worship Committee.  It was comprised mainly of students, but with […]

When I was a teenager, my father was pretty well known in-and-around Salisbury, North Carolina, where we lived.  He was the Salisbury District Lay Leader […]

We have just begun the season of Lent, the forty days and six Sundays of reflection, penitence, and preparation for the Easter to come.  Lent […]

There is a thought-provoking scene in Lewis Carroll’s classic children’s tale, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.  Young Alice comes to a fork in the road and asks the […]

On Sunday we will finish up our series on relationships called “Happily Even After,” and we’ve taken a look at the apostle Paul’s introductory statement about marriage […]