Posts from May 2025

Right now, all over America there are graduation exercises in the months of May and June. We see signs in yards in our community that highlight a High School or college graduates that lives there. There are parties, there are graduation trips, and there are graduation ceremonies.  At those ceremonies proud family members and friends watch a loved one as their name is announced, they walk across the stage, get a handshake from the Principal or University president, then are…

I remember when I was young, I was finally introduced to what we call ‘chapter books.’  Do you remember that? Like most children, I loved being read to by my parents or a teacher. But in those early days all my books had one basic story, one main point, and were loaded with pictures to keep me interested. I couldn’t read the words anyway, but I began connecting the words that were read to me with the pictures I was…

This coming Sunday May 18 is a unique day in our church family. We have invited in some guests that we all need to meet and get to know them. We have talked of this for weeks now, but just in case you didn’t get it, they are coming for a visit to LifeWay and the NW with the possibility that Tim would join our Sr Pastor team in a few months, and eventually take the role of the next Sr…

This coming Sunday, May 11, is Mother’s Day. Happy Mother’s Day to all of you. At church this Sunday I’m using this day to begin a new series of messages that somebody might even consider Christian counseling. I would really consider it to be Christian discipleship in all of the different phases of life. Let me explain.  I’ve been in some form of ministry either as a youth director for the first few years or as a pastor here now…

Two Sundays ago, we completed our study of the Gospel of Mark when Billy gave us a message on the Resurrection. If you recall my message on the introduction to the Gospel of Mark back in September 2024, I said that the whole gospel was likely based on Mark’s conversations with the Apostle Peter. Peter and Mark were close friends, and Peter was likely a mentor to Mark. Peter comes up a lot in the gospel. Peter was the first…