April 2013
What Winning Looks Like
What Winning Looks Like Sermon text: Acts 9:1-20 Preached April 14, 2013 at Cullowhee Baptist Church This a rich text. It provides us with two different call narratives. The first and most famous is the call to Saul on the road to Damascus. This is, arguably, the second most important passage in the New Testament […]
When to Walk Away
I hit all the points I wanted to hit, and yet I felt that I did not do justice to the urgency of the message I was preaching--that we so often look at the past and wish we could have been there to commit some violent act to prevent an injustice, that we forget that we have the opportunity to insist on peaceful solutions every day. We find it so easy to tell a story and have no sympathy for the characters we recognize to be "bad," that we get used to thinking about life in that way, rather than as the complicated, messy milieu we encounter every day.