Category: Ministry
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critical
I was reading, recently in Numbers 12 and came across the story of Miriam and Aaron disagreeing with Moses’ choice of a wife. Their disagreement led them down a path of severe negativity and they became critical – quite critical in fact to the point that they even questioned their brother’s calling. There is so…
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No Batteries Needed.
Its Easter weekend, the biggest weekend on the Church calendar, and this year Easter has taken on an entirely . . . . different feel. Its’ simpler. Now, I’m sure that there are some pastors who are really bummed about not having a normal Easter weekend. After all this is THE weekend when we pull…
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Isaac
Disclaimer: This post is nearly three times longer than my typical posts. I’ve had several folks reach out and ask how we are doing, and haven’t really had the words to express. I know people everywhere are having to deal with the challenges of their present reality in their own unique way. Countless others have…
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Nine
Nine. I’m sure there is some sort of great spiritual significance to the number nine. But this weekend the number nine is significant because it was that many years ago that RiverChurch Chattanooga officially launched. This weekend always brings a great deal of reflection for me, every year. Lots of memories. Lots of mountain tops.…
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The Mandate
It was almost ten years ago, when Kristia and I came back to Chattanooga, to determine for certain that this was the place that God was leading us to as we began to sense a time of transition dawning over our lives. My mentor, friend, and local history expert, Kevin took Kristia and I on…
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Help Pull The Sled.
We have an oft used phrase around RiverChurch – “Go Be The Church.” Its our reminder that “Church” isn’t some place we go to, rather it is something that we embody in our everyday lives. A specific family in our city is in desperate need for the Church to Be the Church. This mom,…
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Coffee Together: Serve
Mother Theresa was asked one time “How did God call you to serve the poor?” Her answer . . . “I was not called to serve the poor, rather I was called to serve Jesus and He led me here.” If anyone knows me, they know I’m a big dreamer. Sometimes I can get carried…
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Life is Short. Eternity is Forever.
I stood by her bedside a little while ago. She could only communicate with a pen and paper. It was almost a year ago that I stood by her husband’s bedside. He had collapsed the day before in the checkout line at Walmart. A couple of customers and myself tried to resuscitate him. He survived, but only…
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Praying in Cirlces
They are one of the first and easiest shapes we learn to draw in school, or even pre-school. They don’t have to be perfect, just relatively discernable. They are naturally formed when we stand in a group of people. If we get lost, we get the most frustrated when we realize that we’ve been driving in them…
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The Other Side
George came in yesterday. He was walking on cloud nine. “Cancer Free!” He shouted. He was so excited and we were too. He went on to tell us, how he had been cared for so well. People had given him boxes and boxes of food. He’s a very thin older man, but “We’ll fix…