camp report

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camp report

Well, my camera is busted, so I’ve been late in giving a report on how camp went.  It was spectacular.  We baptized 4 kids on Friday night, including one boy from our cabin. That was the highlight, the rest is just filler. I was a cabin dad, played in the worship band, talked at campfire one […]

Eternal… Or not?

I enjoy reading Paul Williams’ back page article in the Christian Standard.  His stuff is easily the most thought-provoking stuff in the mag.  This week’s piece included this line about the church: “It is a long journey, this three score and ten, with its virtual plethora of opportunities. That one should be able to spend a […]

What does it mean to be human?

I read a quote from Sigmund Freud yesterday.  He said, “Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.” I am quite sure that in many ways, Mr. Freud was much more intelligent than I.  And yet there is a part of me that says that on this (as with a number of other issues), he […]

Of train wrecks and rescues

Well, it happened yesterday.  Every worship leader’s worst fear.  The nightmare that wakes you up at three in the morning, sweating and shaking in your bed.  The kind of thing that makes you worry for your job.  The kind of thing that makes you forget to take notes when the preacher is speaking. I’m speaking, of […]