The members of Saint John’s Lutheran Church, Asheboro, voted on February 22, 2012, to call me as their first North American Lutheran Church pastor. I will be ordained and installed on Sunday, May 6th at 2pm, at Saint John’s Lutheran Church, 505 South Park Street, Asheboro, NC 27203. Susan and I, and the members of Saint [...]
December 29, 2011 – 9:30 am
You will not need flash cards and you will not need to take tests. You will however, learn The Lord’s Prayer in the language of the New Testament, Koine Greek. You will also learn part of John 1 and Revelation 1. Along the way, you will learn the Greek alphabet, many Greek words, how to [...]
Susan was proud, I guess. She had the family over after graduation and had set up this little display for them to see. The display should have been showing off her feats, and I would have made such a table except, how do you illustrate what she did? That woman was a huge support and [...]
I was just watching a History Channel program called “Clash of the Gods.” In the one about Thor, Michael Drout, Professor of English at Wheaton College talks about similarities between part of the Thor mythology and the Christian book of “Revelations.” Really? RevelationS? Have you read the book? Even the narrator got it right. Pluralizing [...]
“We’ve Got to Do Something About This” Philippians 3:4b-14 a sermon preached March 21, 2010, at Graham Friends Last Sunday the worship team was practicing before Sunday School when Christian Corbett came into the sanctuary. The expression on his face was serious, even concerned. He had been upstairs with his sister and she had evidently [...]
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October 9, 2009 – 7:14 am
“No Mumblin’ Word” Hebrews 1:1-4, 2:5-12 October 4, 2009 Since I was a young man, I have had difficulty hearing out of my right ear. When I get hearing tests, they tell me nothing is wrong but still, if my right ear is toward you and you don’t speak loudly enough, chances are, I am [...]
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2 Corinthians 8:7-15 talks about grace in a little different way. We typically think about grace in terms of salvation (Ephesians 2:8-9). This passage tells of acts of grace and excelling in grace. I have long been compelled by the idea of receiving “grace upon grace” (John 1:16) so this idea of some excellent grace [...]
I was invited to pray the invocation and benediction at a local high school’s baccalaureate service today. Ashleigh Denny, a teacher at Rivermill Academy asked me and of course, I said I would. Since I’ve never been to a baccalaureate service before and wasn’t entirely sure what such a service was and how to pray, [...]
Kelly has been missing for 6 months. Her story is told in the above video. More details are in this WRAL archive. I will be leading a prayer vigil for Kelly in Butner, NC at the Central Avenue Butner Park this coming Saturday at 7pm. Please join us. If you cannot be at the vigil [...]
January 20, 2009 – 10:37 am
Print more money and spend, spend, spend! (idiots!) My grandchildren are screwed.