It’s 6:30 a.m. on the Tuesday after Labor Day, and all across the Greater Richmond Metropolitan Area mothers and fathers will be trying to get their children out of bed and get them off to school. In honor of those efforts, and those parents, I’d like to tell the stories of how my own parents [...]
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Must Death Have the Last Word?
Posted in Church, Community, tagged death, Die, doubt, earthquake, faith, fear, God, how, Japan, obituaries, problem of evil, story, theodicy, tsunami, when, whether, why on April 6, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The earthquake and tsunami in Japan have not only shaken the world, they’ve shaken a lot of people’s faith. “How could a good and loving God allow such a thing to happen?” they ask. It’s the oldest question in the theology book, and if there were an easy answer it would have been answered a long [...]
This Is How We Do It
Posted in Church, Community, tagged brother, confront, fault, forgiveness, Matthew 18:15, sin, sister, vote on February 19, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I got e-mail from a church member recently telling me how disappointed she had been in the way I handled the vote on the 2011 budget at the end of the 8:30 worship service last Sunday. She said, “You told everybody that it was a done deal, that we had already voted on it, and [...]
200 New Churches in the Next Year?
Posted in Church, Community, The Missional Church, tagged Church, fellowship, heaven, heaven to earth, Lord's Prayer, microchurch, mission, Richmond, TV, wherever two or three are gathered on October 21, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Yesterday I stood in front of a television camera and recorded this announcement to go out with our Sunday broadcast from Richmond’s First Baptist Church: Often when I’m out and about I bump into someone who says they watch our worship services on TV. Sometimes they tell me that they go to the early service [...]
