Category: Weekly pastor column
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One Sacred Effort
The most significant thing that happened at this year’s Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention is something the rest of the world doesn’t think is significant at all.
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The High Cost of Floating Along
One of the “high points” of a trip to Israel is actually a low point—the Dead Sea. At 1,385 feet below sea level, it is literally the lowest spot on the globe. We had a ball floating in the Dead Sea. Because the Dead Sea has no outlets, all the minerals flowing into it make…
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Living in the Wild
I love Vacation Bible School! There’s an excitement and an energy around the church that simply cannot be duplicated any other time of the year. And I am so thankful for the countless hours of preparation that go into every facet of it. Leslie Whaley, you are a rock star leading rock stars, and I…
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Where Jesus Walks…
“I walked today where Jesus walked, and felt His presence there.” That was one of the favorite songs of the minister of music at the church where I grew up. And there were so many times over the past two weeks when the words to that song came alive to me. Whether it was walking…
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When a Turkey Gets Pardoned
Every year since 1989, the President of the United States grants an official pardon to one lucky turkey. It had been an on-again, off-again ceremony up to that point. Truman did it in 1947. JFK did in 1963, three days before he was assassinated. But with George H.W. Bush, it became the annual tradition that…
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2030 Vision
What do we want Glynwood Baptist Church to look like by the year 2030?
