Someone stopped me yesterday as I was walking through campus. She wanted to pitch me the idea of donating to an endeavor to help children with cancer. As a part of her pitch, she asked me what I did. I told her I was a pastor. She asked me what the “mission” of our church…

Re- It’s a prefix that means to do over again. There are things about “re” that we don’t like. We don’t like having to do things over again. That usually means that we’ve failed the first time. And so when we hear the word “Reformation” we like to ignore the “re”. We like to think…

“War…what is it good for?” That line itself probably is enough to evoke memory of Edwin Starr’s 1970 hit. The lyrics continue, answering the question, “absolutely nothing.” The screens of our cellphones, tablets, and televisions have been showing us images of war for quite some time now. We have witnessed war in the Ukraine and…

Last week from Thursday to Saturday, I was in Orlando with one thousand forty of my closest friends from the Florida Georgia District. We were together at the President’s Equip Conference, a conference that is held every three years and invites pastors, teachers, DCE’s, lay people, and everyone else to gather and think about a…