For Happy Monday!
Look for the triumphal return of Happy Monday on January 1st, 2018. The first day of the new year is on a Monday. Cannot be a coincidence. We’ll be topping of the fluids and gauging the tires on the Happy Monday truck. Hope to see you real soon.
I remember listening to missionaries tell stories and share slide shows – not Power Point projections, actual slides on carousels. They were from “the mission field” a place with terrible roads, lack of electricity and unsafe drinking water. They worked with people that looked, dressed and spoke differently than we did. What I knew about missions as a child is that they were far away, in difficult to reach places, and we needed to fund missionaries to print Bibles and build churches. I also hoped, at a young age mind you, that God didn’t call me to the mission field because I didn’t want to go. Continue reading
It is true that I haven’t blogged in a while but I have been preaching. The Sermons Archive page on our church website has been updated with sermons from Acts chapters 8, 9 and 10. Saul beings preaching the Gospel in the 9th chapter and Peter preaches the Gospel to Gentiles in chapter 10 so lots of good stuff in there. If anyone has been wondering what I’ve been up, well there it is.
Sermons page at UnityBaptist.Church
Let me begin by saying I am alive and well. I have not been abducted by aliens nor am I laid up in a hospital somewhere with a head injury and total amnesia. I have not quit blogging so much as I simply haven’t been lately.
Back in the summer my Chromebook sighed and breathed it’s last. I am a creature of habit and soon got out of the habit of posting, even the weekly Happy Monday feature. I check Facebook daily on my phone and pop up on Twitter every now and then. My wife has a full size Windows laptop that I use occasionally when I need a real computer. After a few weeks I got comfortable with my new routine of not getting online via laptop everyday. When that happened replacing my broken laptop quit being a priority. It’s way down on the to-do list right now.
So to sum up: I’m good, the family is healthy, I still pastor a small SBC congregation in rural northwest Georgia. Just haven’t written much lately. There was a time I couldn’t imagine such a thing, but there it is.
Peace and God bless,
Clark J. Bunch
Perhaps a better title would be A Scriptural Response to Racism but this is copied and pasted directly from a Facebook post I put up yesterday. There is so much upheaval in the world today and we are bombarded with information from traditional media to social media 24/7. When it gets to be too much, the Christian believer needs to step back, take a breath, and remember that we are in the world but not of the world.
I don’t mean an official resolution passed by any group of representatives from any church denomination; my congregation will tell you that we read a lot of scripture. Every sermon, every Wednesday night Bible study, every Sunday school lesson begins with reading scripture and keeps going back to it. So this is not any particular Christian leader’s response to racism, this should be “our” response to hate and racism anywhere based on the inspired Word we live by. Continue reading
Please enjoy this archived Happy Monday post from July 28, 2014. It may not have exactly the look we’ve gotten used to but the message is spot on.
We feel you little buddy. If that coffee doesn’t do it for you, try the following quotes, scriptures and what-have-you’s. This is Happy Monday #99. Continue reading
You are not imagining things. Last week, with no announcement or explanation of any kind, there was no Happy Monday post. I had been using my laptop with a broken screen for several days and over that weekend it finally bit the big one. Can’t say right now when it will get replaced. Here is a Happy Monday post from July 20, 2015. Hang in there, we’ll all get through this together.
What we all look like watching Wimbledon. Maybe it’s just me. Let’s get happy! Continue reading
If I went to every conference, seminar and retreat that I get invitations to I would never be at home. It wouldn’t take but a few weeks of missing church to get fired, seeing as how I am the pastor and what not. Having said that, I probably should make time for more of those than I do. So it was a pleasure on the National Day of Prayer to hear some good preaching. Continue reading
No that is not an official job title. And if your pastor, reverend, bishop, elder or shepherd comes to work wearing this I think its time to discuss the job title he does have.
Yes, that is a real product for sale. No, I’m not going to link the ordering information.
Well this snuck up on me. In past years I’ve created whole retrospectives, shared stats, thanked some blog friends, etc. Thank you WordPress for the reminder!
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