True confession: whenever I am in a grocery store checkout line, I read the covers of the tabloids.
This is where I learn “what really happened” in the lives of all of those celebrities in whom I have zero interest.
Have you ever made a gaffe in public that was embarrassing, like, dig-a-hole-and-climb-in-it embarrassing?
One particularly memorable gaffe that had me longing for a shovel happened at another church in the same community where I was a pastor.
I am like a kid when it comes to Christmas. On our first Christmas together, I excitedly asked my wife the night before,
“When do you want to open gifts?” She answered, “Tomorrow morning is fine.” What an adult!
“For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain,” the Apostle Paul wrote in a letter from a prison. He was not disillusioned and looking to end it all. “If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me.
Yet which I should choose, I cannot tell. I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.”
Pastor Austin Huggins, pastor of Christ Evangel Church (christevangel.org) in Milton was invited by Sovereign Grace Bible Church (SGBC) in Lagos, Nigeria to speak at a pastors’ conference in October.
The conference theme was “Suffering and the Sovereignty of God.”
The other day while grocery shopping, an older couple hustled by me headed for the dairy section.
In addition to their spryness, what made them stand out was that they were dressed identically, tan shorts, navy top, white crew socks and identical athletic shoes. I thought to myself, “I wouldn’t be caught dead!”
As a Canadian – or as the Bible refers to me, “the alien in your midst” – I still think of the second Monday in October as Thanksgiving Day. In many U.S. states, that day is Columbus Day, and in others, Indigenous Peoples Day.
Whatever you choose to call that day, one fact remains, I am not getting any turkey.
A group of men from Compass Church and I have begun meeting weekly to study the book “Disciplines of a Godly Man” by R. Kent Hughes.
This excellent book is founded on the command in the Bible for Christians to “discipline” themselves for godliness. The author begins by highlighting famous, successful men, who made their craft look easy.
On the last Sunday in October, Compass Community Church (compassefca.org) in Navarre held its second Family Sunday of 2021.
A new church start-up, Compass has made the fifth Sundays a time to celebrate what God is doing through its literacy tutoring outreach ministry and to better connect with the children’s families.
