I hope the title of this article made you pause to think for a moment. It is likely that my play on words brought “status quo” to your mind and then you may have asked yourself… “why did he use a lower case ‘c’ in church?” Let me explain my intent. I used a lower…
You have to love it when a plan comes together… right? Sunday was one such day. Mission Jackson volunteers, Englewood Baptist Church Sunday school members, City of Jackson Police officers, Mundt Rental Properties, and members of the Jackson Lions Club worked in unity to reach out to the community near Guardian Courts ( aka, MJ…
Benched… disenfranchised… discouraged… ineffective… spiritually nullified – do you know the feeling? You probably know what I mean. If you do not, give thanks to the Lord above! However, for those of us who believe in and follow Jesus, this can sometimes be the reality that vexes our spiritual existence. How do you get in…
We’ve all been there, right? Someone who you depended on has let you down. That job that you hoped to get didn’t materialize. The report from the doctor was not what you thought it would be. Life gets more complicated than you are prepared to deal with. Yes sir… things, people, circumstances, health, the future……
I am confident that most of you can relate… unless you are very, very, VERY fortunate. Some days, you feel like the negative object of the world’s scrutiny. Other days, you feel like a holder of the ultimate source of hope, ready to extinguish the evil fires of the world. Notice in the statements above,…
Today is a special day in my homeland… for more than one reason. First, it is my dear wife’s birthday. I love her and I am glad that we have been able to celebrate another birthday together on this earth. However, this post is mostly about the second reason for my post. This is July…
“If everyone in the world suddenly decided to become homosexuals, would humanity survive?“ That “is” the question that simply identifies a logical issue in our time… and the answer is “no,” by the way. We must also assume that a homosexual couple would adhere strictly to the notion that two people of the same gender…
In January of 2009, Ralph Nicholas – my dad – left this world to join his dad in heaven. Dad had fought a long battle with cancer and survived many years longer than his doctors first considered possible. Today, as I write this article, I hope to shed a little light upon his life and…
Brothers and sisters… please read this prayerfully. How often do you cry or pray for the nations? How often do we listen to “their” cries? I fear that in America, we have (generally) gotten so absorbed by how we do church that we have forgotten what it is like to be the Church. We are…