Mercer Chapel on Spring Road was a little white-frame community church. Like thousands of others, a fixture of the American countryside. Set in a cemetery, its patriarchs and matriarchs slept near by. It was a pleasant slow-paced congregation. Volleyball league and Ladies’ Aid. Strawberry suppers and ice-cream socials. Pot-luck dinners and Class parties. Christmas pageants […]
Ida Taylor
I was Ida Taylor’s pastor for a few years. She was not shy about what she liked and didn’t like. She let me know there were some things about me she liked and there were a few things I did or said she was pretty sure she didn’t like. She was real direct about what […]
Tending the Flowers
Dave was working in the flower garden at the church this week. When I saw him there it touched me. It reminded me of a day last summer. I’d been out making some calls and I was walking back into the church with a bottle of water. It was a warm, sunny day. The inner […]
Jobsworth
According to Wikipedia a jobsworth is a person who uses his for her job description in a deliberately uncooperative way, or who delights in acting in an obstructive or unhelpful manner. Sometimes I have used term “gatekeeper mentality” to describe this irritating attitude. Last week we travelled with a group of young people from Evangel […]
What Is Your Gourd?
11:00 AMKen Pierpont; Jonah 4
A Flyover of Numbers
06:00 PMKen PierpontSeries: A Flyover of the Books of the Bible; Numbers
A Tellin’
Amish people are just people and the world over people are a lot alike, including Amish people. But the Amish do have some unique ways. Most Amish people don’t have televisions, radios, VCRs, DVDs, computers, iPods, iPads, and other electronic do-dads. Of course, you know, they don’t have cars, ether. One of the things they […]
Three Effects of Communion
11:00 AMKen Pierpont; John 15