Ken

As I mentioned last week, I was the youngest of 5 sons. That meant the gender scorecard in my family was 6 men, 1 lady. I had a lot of first-hand knowledge about men and a limited amount understanding of women. (Next week, Michele Cushatt is going to fix all of that when she talks about “Understanding Women.”) Truth be told, there are many times I don’t understand myself and I’m a man! For the ladies in the audience, I’ve compiled a list of things your mom may never told you about men. When two men are next to each other at a stoplight, at least one of them is thinking about beating the other one off the line. Men can slip into a coma waiting for you to come out of the fitting room. Putting toilet paper on the roll is not common sense, it’s a super power. If…

I was born to Christian parents and we rarely missed church. Not once during my entire lifetime did either of my parents ever talk to me about sex. With five boys, I assumed they must have known something about it but they sure weren’t sharing it with me. I attended the same church from birth through high school graduation. I believe my Sunday School teachers were godly people. Two of our pastors were major influences on my decision to enter the ministry. Yet, as best as I can remember, we never had a class or sermon on the topic of sexuality. I assume that many of them had read the entire Bible – even the parts that talked about sex. But they weren’t talking about it either. That doesn’t mean I wasn’t talking about it – or thinking about it. But I was doing so without hearing the most important…

After months of anticipation, our EnVision remodel is underway. The first demolition crew arrived on August 30 and work has begun. As they say in construction (I'm learning new things all the time), now the fun begins! Dan Hettinger, who directs our congregational care at Mountainview, sent out the following email to our prayer team. I'm passing it along so you can join us in praying for God's kingdom to be expanded through these efforts. ********** 52 Days of Prayer for the EnVision Construction Good afternoon! Today is Day 1. It feels different here at church. There are new faces of the construction crew and the downstairs is an exciting mess getting ready for an amazing transformation. Would you, as a member of the prayer team, commit to pray every day for our church during this construction project, starting today? Nehemiah led one of the most remarkable construction projects ever.…

4:17 pm, Sunday, July 20, 1969 People gathered around their television or watched through a store window. What were they watching? The moon landing. September 12, 1962 It was on this date that President John F. Kennedy spoke at Rice University regarding the goal of sending a person to the moon: “But why, some say, the Moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask, why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? We choose to go to the Moon! We choose to go to Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and…