Let the Shepherd Lead

  • Newsletter: October 2008

         Last month’s column established that faith and politics should mix, but in a very different way than expected. Our faith should inspire us to vote our convictions yet we must never forget the central place of evangelism to our mission as a church. We do not exist to get people elected, but to transform

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  • Why not Choose Life?

         For several months I have been hearing that within one of our major parties, a Pro-Life group has been lobying for the platform to be adapted to state that while they believe in a woman’s right to choose they also believe that efforts should be made to prevent abortions, thus supporting a woman’s decision to have a baby. The actual wording

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  • Newsletter September 2008

         This week the first of our nation’s two great poltical conventions is held. In just a few months Americans will be asked to exercise their right to vote. For those who believe this right should be considered a most sacred duty. A duty, perhaps only secondary to our duties to love God and love our fellow man, ensuring that our Christian witness

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  • Newsletter – August 2008

                Reading, Reading, Reading. I feel like I have read all of this week. Of course what should I expect when I am taking a seminary class? My class and reading assignments focus on missions. Missions centers on the glory of God, and as believers, we glorify or magnify God when we realize he is

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  • On Mission – At Home, Sort Of

         This will be my final post in the On Mission series, mainly because we have already left the field and are at home. Our final day at Lake Pointe was filled with a good deal of odds and ends of finishing the work. We put in the remainder of the trim, cleaned up our

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  • On Mission – Day 5

         Today our group had the day off. Well I should say that some of our group had the day off. Mr. Ralph and Mr. Bee decided to stay at the church to press ahead on the tasks that needed to be completed. For those of us who took the day off we went to

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  • On Mission – Day 4

         Today we worked earnestly towards the most fulfilling and exciting portion of the trip for me. I was so excited to begin washing cars today because that meant that we had the opportunity to share our faith. Two things amazed me. First people from Lake Pointe Church took time off from their jobs so that they

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