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What I Really Want to Talk About sticky icon

“Like I wrote on the Sunday visitor card, I want to talk to you about being baptized again,” she said, as we pulled up two chairs amidst the Wednesday supper crowd.

Really what this visitor wanted to talk about was how her life had fallen apart and how far she’d wandered from God since she was baptized in 2001.

No, really what she wanted to talk about was the death of her young son a little over a year ago.

Is God Mad at the Big-Butter Jesus Church? sticky icon

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My trips to Dayton, Ohio will be different from now on.  My favorite marker, a 62-foot statue of Jesus made of wood, styrofoam and resin in front of Solid Rock Church on I-75, was struck by lightning and burned to the ground.

Apparently the statue’s real name was King of Kings, but we had several better titles: Loch Ness Jesus or Sinking Jesus (his torso emerged from a pond), Touchdown Jesus (arms thrust upward).  Or my favorite, Big Butter Jesus (for its golden color).

Prayer Provides Peaceful Way sticky icon

 

As often happens, a line from my morning prayer resource caught my attention. The line is from a prayer that says God will “direct our steps along peaceful ways.”

Part of my occupational hazard and blessing is that I think a lot about God-- who God is, what God does and doesn’t do, what effect it has to say one believes in God.



Leadership

Joe Phelps

PASTOR

 

Nina Maples

ASSOCIATE PASTOR

 

Renee Purtlebaugh

MINISTER TO CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES

 

Carol Harston

MINISTER TO YOUTH

 

Emily Hull

MINISTER TO YOUNG ADULTS

 

Kathy Collier

MINISTER OF MUSIC AND WORSHIP

 

Austin Echols

ORGANIST

 

Don Burke

PASTOR EMERITUS

 

Bill Campbell

DEACON CHAIR

 

Lee Cave

DEACON CHAIR ELECT

 

Mary Burks Price

MINISTRY PLANNING TEAM CHAIR