Columns & Opinions
I see a beach in my immediate future
Ispent some time on Friday and Saturday taking pictures at the Apache Pass car show and barbeque cookoff. Since it had rained and I thought it would be muddy, I wore an old pair of shoes in which I nearly lost it in some mud. I just knew I was going down, but somehow I managed not to.
Did Jesus make a difference in our world?
Thomas Cahill, author of The World before and After Jesus, Desire of the Everlasting Hills, describes a hill in Rome called the Janiculum, and the quarter of Rome beneath it called Trastevere, one of the birthplaces of Christianity.
Making disciples
Former Southern Baptist Convention president , JD Greear recently said, “Maybe the worst failure for a church is success in things that aren’t producing reproducing disciples.” I totally get that. As a professional Christian (pastor of a church) I can spend a lot of time on stuff that has nothing to do with what Jesus told all of us to do (make disciples - Matthew 28:19-20).