Today is the 75th National Day of Prayer. The theme is GLORIFY GOD AMONG THE NATIONS – SEEKING HIM IN ALL GENERATIONS. There will be a broadcast tonight from Statuary Hall in our nation’s capital streamed from the NDP website also available on YouTube, Facebook and several different Christian television and radio stations. You can download a Pray Across America Guide from that website. There are also events at churches and other public places throughout the day in every state.
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This past Sunday at Unity Baptist I preached a message titled Holy Week. We read texts from Matthew about the Triumphal entry and the institution of the Lord’s Supper, which we shared following the sermon. I have posted each day this week on the events of Holy Week on the Unity Baptist website and linked to those posts each day from the church Facebook page. The most recent posts are linked in the left-hand sidebar.
Today is Holy Saturday, also known as Black Saturday. No lessons, no sermons, no miracles; just darkness and confusion on the part of those that followed Jesus. And now we wait.
WordPress reminded me this morning that I have been on this platform for 18 years. If my blog were a person it would be an adult. When I first met Michael Spencer, his blog The Internet Monk had only been around three years. He had only blogged a total of 10 years when he passed away. I did not start blogging until he launched a podcast and began to transition away from posting as often.
I wanted to note the occasion. Since it caught me off guard there’s no bloggoversary special, lifetime stats, etc. Just the acknowledgement that it’s been a minute since I started doing this in 2008. Let me just encourage everyone reading to do well and do good.
Long live the blog.
Exactly Similar – That describes when two things are the same only different. This week’s lead in is once again the weather but this time we’re talking about snow in the South and not a crippling ice storm. Athens could see 4 – 5 inches. Where I live, closer to Alabama, will gets bands of snow. There could be 1/2 inch or none at all, while locations nearby could see 1 to 2 inches. Then it will turn cold. Atlanta will stay below freezing from Saturday morning into Monday afternoon.
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Winter weather in winter. The image above is what we expect where I live in northwest Georgia. Some 200 million Americans will be affected from Texas and Louisiana all the way up to New York. The problem in the South will be ice and freezing rain. NYC is expected to have the longest streak of days in a row below freezing since 2018. The weather this weekend is no joke.
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I posted this yesterday on Facebook but I want to share it here and then add a bit of additional commentary.
It’s easy to tell just by looking around that we are busier than ever before. We used to work a shift at the mill, all day on a farm, or keep business hours in the city, but even if you worked hard it ended and everyone went home. Now we take work with us and clients/customers/bosses expect to be able to reach us anytime. You can put in a full day, then continue making work calls on your dive home then check and reply to emails once at your house. (I’m going to pretend no one is readying email while driving but I know better.)
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We have finished our observance of Advent which ends each year on Christmas Day as we celebrate the birth of Christ. But our little church out in Plainville, GA does not have a Christmas Eve or Christmas Day service so the Christ candle in our wreath has not been lit. I’m going to preach one more sermon, God is in the Manger, tomorrow morning and we are going to light the center tower/Christ candle. No one is going to complain about coming to church and hearing too much about Jesus, right? If so that’s a person I need to have a long talk with anyway.
Continue readingHey blog friends, I know it’s a been a while. December is always a busy month and this one has stretched me to the limit, if not slightly past it. Here is a Happy Monday post from 2015. I will drop some tech specs into the comments for my nerd friends.
Enjoy your week, celebrate in whatever way you see fit, do little things that are kind but also that no one knows about. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, God is in the manger.
Good news about the Good News – I find myself a little bit surprised, but in a good way, about the results of this published study. Not only do 74% of pastors report regularly presenting the Gospel, another 11% report doing so two or three times each month and another 3% once a month. There are some other categories of response but the bottom line is that only 1% of SBC pastors say they never offer a gospel presentation. Read the full article here via Christian Index.
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Do you know about the little Jesus figures? I think I first saw them back in the summer when we had a Gideon speaker. He just kept pulling them out of different pockets and lining them up on the table. Below left is one I discovered at a Marathon station in Rome, GA. Below right is a sampling of the box of 100 I ordered from Amazon. I have handed them out at church, our city council meeting and to everyone I work with. And, just like the one I picked up that goes with me everywhere, I sometimes leave one here and there for others to find. Because everybody needs a little Jesus.
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The Master's Table 