How (and why!) do we transform our communities from being inward-focused to outward facing? In our keynote address, Fr. Barnabas Powell of Sts. Raphael, Nicholas, and Irene GOC of Cumming,…
On All Saints Sunday, we find ourselves in an increasingly "enchanted" world. If we are ever going recover the centrality of Christ in our lives, we are going to have…
"As Your grace cannot be fathomed, so Your mercy cannot be measured..." With these words, I invited this very precious person to confess her sins. We were at confession and…
"Have you been saved?" The sincere lady was looking intently at me and waiting for my answer to her probing question. You see, she was "witnessing" to me in hopes…
The truth is you will never develop or mature beyond your idea of who and what God is. The old gods of the pagans were little more than really powerful…
"Well, I Suwannee!" I remember saying that when I was in seminary in Boston, and the reaction from folks not from the South was, let's just say, interesting. "What does…
"That's the real McCoy!" I know, some of you younger readers will stare at the screen and say "What?" But believe it or not, that is a famous American idiom…
It seems fashionable, especially among those who seem to preach a utopian ideology, to claim Jesus was a "radical" that would agree with "us." As someone whose lived a long…
On this Sunday of Pentecost, we hear the tale of two men, and the difference between these two men illustrates the desperate need for the "fire" of the Holy Spirit…
Someone once said, "Anyone who says raising children is not the hardest job in the world isn't doing it right!" And that is so very true. But "difficult" doesn't mean…