Missouri

We're looking forward to going to Missouri tomorrow. On Saturday the family will gather to celebrate my maternal grandmother's 90th birthday. Some Bill's barbecue, Causbie's bakery products, and Stawberry's ribs are in my future!!

Fairview Call

Yesterday Fairview extended a call for my family and me to serve there by unanimous vote. It was the culmination of what has been the most unusual times of my life. When we arrived in South Carolina last year, in no way was I looking to pastor a church. In the back of my mind I hadn't ruled it out forever, but I was looking for many years at North Greenville. God had other plans.

Only God can take a guy from Texas to a church via a university. His ways are certainly greater than our ways! Pray for us as we begin this journey officially on August 1. Fairview is a great church with God-given opportunity. An open-door is before us. My prayer is that we'll go through it.

Happy Birthday!

Lordy, Lordy look whose no longer 40!!

Lesa is officially AARP eligible.

Muslim-Christian 'Priest'

There is some recent news about an Episcopal priest's identity crisis in Seattle.

http://www.albertmohler.com/blog_read.php?id=972

Misplaced Priorities

More evidence is in that suggests much different priorities for married couples. The Pew Research Center survey on marriage and parenting found that the percentage of Americans who consider children "very important" to a successful marriage has dropped again. Couples cite the sharing of household chores as pivotal. Just 41% view children as important while chore-sharing was cited by 62% of the couples.

I suppose making sure the right person vacums or washes the clothes is all-important to a marriage. What happened to raising a family?

Psalms 127:3 (HCSB) "Sons are indeed a heritage from the Lord, children, a reward."

Mormons as "Christians"

An interesting debate is taking place now on beliefnet.com about Mormonism. If you're interested click on the link below:

http://blog.beliefnet.com/blogalogue/mormondebate/

Happy 4th!

Happy 4th everyone. It will be a sunny, perfect day in South Carolina. We had a great July 4th celebration at Fairview on Sunday. There was a stirring musical by the choir and a fireworks display that was as well done as any I've seen. There were hundreds of people in attendance. As far as today is concerned, it is grill and chill!