Pastor’s Page, November 13, 2007 When I was a child, we had a cabin near a river, the Nooksack by name. It was in Northern Washington, just shy of the Canadian border at a Baptist summer camp. There were private cabins on church property up above the camp, and my folks owned one, and leased [...]
Samuel knew it, Ezekiel experienced it: without vision, a people have no rudder, no guiding star. Vision gives us hope during the lean times, and brings us back on course during the fat ones. Vision is to be held up before us like a sign-post, pointing the way to an ever-renewing future in Christ. Here [...]
Pastor’s Page (October 24, 2007) We are a resurrection people . . . we are filled with the knowledge and the anticipation and the sure hope of a future with God. But what can we really say about resurrection, what does it really mean to our everyday lives? Does it just refer to some far [...]
As I’ve said before, we Presbyterians are a literate lot . . . we proudly tout our educational levels (which are higher than average), we’ve been the genesis of more than one major University, and at least once in the past, the denomination has split over education. True—in 1810, a presbytery was formed that 19 [...]
Takin’ It to the Streets Note: This week’s article was written for the Presbyterian News Service by Mike Ferguson. The original can be found here
Takin’ It to the Streets Note: This week’s article was written for the Presbyterian News Service by Mike Ferguson. The original can be found here
Takin’ It to the Streets Note: This week’s article was written for the Presbyterian News Service by Mike Ferguson. The original can be found here
In the cold of an Atlanta winter—if that can be even called cold—I got a call from someplace really cold: Lemmon, South Dakota. It was from the Pastor Nominating Committee at Spencer Memorial Presbyterian Church, a congregation of about 160 members at the time, and it was one of those gang-calls that folks who’ve served [...]
Pastor Page (October 17, 2007) We’ve been talking about demographics in the last couple of weeks. After Wednesday-night supper, John Sikes presented a graphical view of the Tuscaloosa demographic make-up and that of our neighborhood, and compared them to the demographics of Covenant Presbyterian Church. Not surprisingly, the demographic make-up of CPC looks little like [...]
Pastor Page (October 17, 2007) We’ve been talking about demographics in the last couple of weeks. After Wednesday-night supper, John Sikes presented a graphical view of the Tuscaloosa demographic make-up and that of our neighborhood, and compared them to the demographics of Covenant Presbyterian Church. Not surprisingly, the demographic make-up of CPC looks little like [...]
