Evergreen Connection
Happy Valentines Day
Today is a day we enjoy celebrating romantic love, but also are reminded that the greatest love is the one given to us by our Heavenly Father. In this BreakPoint commentary, recorded way back in 1999, Chuck Colson tells us how the commemoration of the ultimate human love—Christian martyrdom—stood in stark contrast and ultimately replaced […]
Continue ReadingEleventh Hour Breakthroughs
A bowl of Raisin Bran, a cup of coffee and the day’s Solid Joys devotional by John Piper; that’s how I typically start my day. Today’s bite was so encouraging I had to share it, both for its own value as well as commending this App (you can find it on Google Play or iTunes) […]
Continue ReadingOrdaining the Masses
Do you ever get tired of the endless appeals to “get involved” at EBC? Have you grown weary of the next “opportunity” that one of us Pastors is “excited” to “encourage” you to “consider” being a part of (the words in quotations being our obvious favorite words to use during announcements)? Quite honestly, I’m sometimes […]
Continue ReadingIt’s Not About Caesar
If angst, rhetoric and chatter were water, America would need an ark. The hive has been whacked with a Trump stick and it is buzzing like mad. Oh, I am fully aware that many of the worker bees are in favor of the stick; clearly enough to get him elected. But the delighted and disgruntled […]
Continue ReadingThe Power of Seeing
Yesterday Kristin and I skated to a local theater to see Hidden Figures, the true story of the African-American women who overcame racial prejudice and became indispensable in America’s space program in the 1960s. It is an excellent film with much to commend it. I could feel the tension build within me as I watched […]
Continue ReadingFour Quarters to Remember
Last night’s college championship game between Alabama and Clemson was one of the best football games I’ve ever seen. There was history on the line, juicy coaching backstories, spectacular big plays and a thrilling come from behind win on the last play of the game. I think even those with little interest in football would […]
Continue ReadingReady For My Last New Year
Saturday night was my 50th New Year’s Eve and it is clearly not as compelling as it once was. Kristin and I watched the ball drop on New York time and then went to bed. At midnight, Pacific Time, I was fast asleep and all I remember of the turn of the year was the […]
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How to Shine Your Light for Christ
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We are Ready for Jesus to Arrive at Our Inn
I just read through the 82 names signed up to help staff the Winter Hospitality Overflow shelter next week and I am moved to tears. We have just two spots left to fill and then we will be ready for Jesus to arrive. The simple completion of a roster we committed to is not the source […]
Continue ReadingWhere Did the Day Go?
I feel a bit sheepish acknowledging this but I am not going to be able to write my usual post for today’s Connection. I left the house at 5:45am and now it is 4:00pm. Somehow the 10 hours in between have just evaporated without my having accomplished this weekly task. I do apologize. Perhaps there […]
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