Yesterday, Tonya and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary - hard to believe but only getting better with each year. We stayed in downtown Denver at the Oxford Hotel, a place that has been in existence for over one hundred years. We enjoyed a great production of "A Christmas Carol" and a late dinner at McCormicks. Twenty years ago we got married in Memphis during a tremendous rain storm. After the wedding and reception we rode off in a limousine (complete with Tonya popping her head out the sun roof, much the way the Queen of England would do). We spent our first married night in Memphis, our second in Jackson, Mississippi, our third in Pascagoula, and in many different cities ever since. Tonya was raised in a minister's home and for some reason decided to marry one, too. I have often told people that congregations hire me just to…
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"We can wear ourselves out trying to change the unchangeable." -- H.B. London Posted from WordPress for Android
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From my morning reading: "Be around people who stimulate you to newness rather than people who drag you down. Don't have heroes - be a hero. Live a life that others will view as anointed." -- H.B. London Posted from WordPress for Android
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I've been reading each morning from a book called "Pause, Recharge, Refresh" by H.B. London. It's written especially for pastors but each little section really applies to everyone. This morning I read a chapter about persevering in your call. Here is part of what London wrote. *********** I used to be a duffer. Many of you know how difficult a game golf is. One good shot - one close to the pin or one 250-yard drive - gives you the feeling you can make that shot every time. But you know you can't, just like you can solve everyone's problems, preach the perfect sermon, always live up to others' expectations, or even live up to your own. But there is one major difference - golf is a game. Your lot in life is determined by a calling. I can quit golf and look at my clubs in the garage without…
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From Hal Seed, pastor at New Song Community Church in Oceanside, CA. ********** The leader�s unspoken covenant to their followers contains three promises: �1. If you follow me, I will make your life better. �2. If you follow me, I will care about you. �3. If you follow me, I will take you where you cannot go on your own. ********** Read the full article.
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