5:55 PM Today’s entry in the Crosswalk weblog is called Easter, Iraq and the Sovereignty of God. Besides the two stories told in this entry, I met a man after the third service, a first-time visitor from Tennessee, who said, “I needed to hear what you said to that soldier on his way to Iraq. I have a son serving in Afghan…
Death is Not Natural by Ray Pritchard Joe Carter of The Evangelical Outpost has written a fine article called Still in the World: A Pro-Life View of Death and Dying. While discussing his mother’s death, he comes to this bottom line: Until the cancer made her unable to work, my mother had been a hospice nurse. She had been w…
Sermon Series: Ponder This - 20059:40 PM The latest entry in the Crosswalk weblog is called Why Should We Care About Terri Schiavo?. 3:00 PM Speaking of “The Church in Many PLaces,” Pastor Craig Hammond and a team from our Allied Force High School Ministry left this morning for a spring break missions trip to Memphis. They will be working on a construc…
4:20 PM The latest entry in the Crosswalk weblog is called Miracle in the Making. 11:07 AM If you would like to be blessed on this Good Friday, read the poem The Sacrifice, written in 1633 by George Herbert. The music to “O Sacred Head Now Wounded” plays in the background. Read and let your heart revisit Skull Hill wher…
10:45 AM Darin Weil reports that the Calvary 500 total now stands at 215:Power Connection and Allied Forces will be trained in April which will give us about another 100. Homebuilders is scheduling training, 20/20 will be doing training in April, Potters Wheel is scheduling their training, and we still have the Seniors, the…
10:49 PM The latest entry in the Crosswalk weblog is called A Little Child Shall Lead Them. 3:09 PM Wednesday shout-out to Pastor Abraham Lincoln Washington, Charlie Brainer, Dave Starks, Jon Payne, Natalie Belisle, David Weiser, Scott Thomas, Kathy Jacobs, Joey Newton, Kristen Kamm, John and Karen Grassmick, Becky Jones, A…
11:30 AM Last week I reported that the pastors had filled out brackets for March Madness (no money involved). When I asked this morning at staff meeting how we were all doing in the contest, Craig Hammond said he didn’t know. Howard Duncan sent this email a few minutes ago:Since Ray asked about the NCAA tournament, and sinc…
6:40 PM Rabbi Schmuley Boteach offers a conservative Jewish perspective on the tragic starvation of Terri Schiavo by her husband.What comes to mind in the story of Terri Schiavo is the famous quotation of Pastor Martin Niemöller concerning moral failure in the face of the Nazis: “First they came for the Communists, but I…
You Can’t Rush the River by Ray Pritchard Several friends are about to make job changes and major career moves. In more than one case it means leaving this area for another part of the country; sometimes it means leaving a job with no certainty about a future paycheck. Since I’ve been in both situations myself, I know …
Sermon Series: Ponder This - 2005