Notes from the Pulpit


Tuesday
6/26/2008

6:08 am

THOUGHTS ON BEING TERMINALLY ILL

I have always been aware that my family had a lot of cancer in it. We haven’t been so much of a heart problem family, but we sure have had cancer. My mother got sick at 48 and died at 52. Many other aunts, uncles, and cousins died of various types of cancer. That is why I have always looked for things you could do to prevent cancer.

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Tuesday
15/17/2008

3:06 pm

NOTES ON THE ENERGY CRISIS


Do you remember what it was like before air conditioning? We had an attic fan that cooled our house at night. As I got older there was a window fan in my bedroom. And there was a space heater that had to be lit in the morning in the winter. We survived just fine. The times we felt were hardships were when we visited my grandfather near Anderson. It was always colder there and there was no heat at all in the room where we slept. There was always a stack of blankets and quilts on the bed in that room. It was cold when you got up (or turned over) but we made it just fine.

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Friday
10/23/2008

10:05 am

Notes on Natural Church Development Survey

Passionate Spirituality….what does that mean? Do you know? I am learning. At least, I am learning what the Natural Church Development people say it is. And the reason that is important is because several months ago the leadership of our Church completed a survey designed to help us identify our strengths and weaknesses. Our MINIMUM FACTOR was passionate spirituality. This is not my judgment, mind you, although I was one of a number of people who completed the survey. This is the finding from the entire group. What does this mean? It means, that of the eight areas the survey measures, this is our weakest area. According to this method of Church development, a church should focus its attention on its weakest area.

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