I looked around, as I tend to do quite a bit, at church today and realized that Karri and I sit alone. A lot. Karri remarked on it today, that it seemed there was a buffer of seats around us and that the rest of the congregation/class had settled into little cliques around us.
Now, I [...]
I’m beginning to see a dangerous idolatry in the water at First Hattiesburg, and it’s a very, very common one among churches in the South, and started hundreds of years ago with the Holy Roman Catholic Church. It’s something that doesn’t really become clear until you’ve been there a month or two and listened to [...]
I need to sit down with Glenn Galey or someone else at church who has grown up Christian slowly but surely deepening their faith and their personal connection to God through His Word, rarely straying far when they do stray at all. I need to walk a mile or two in their shoes so I [...]
Last entry I said, “There are two things lacking in the way I’m approaching my faith right now, so far as I can see it. First, I’m neglecting the Joy of God in His created things. I need to relax and see the world as God sees it, with unlimited love.”
God hears and answers prayers. [...]