This past weekend was a terrific celebration of Pentecost, the anniversary of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the birthday of the Church of Jesus Christ. However, our guest speaker (who shall remain nameless, since this post is in no way a criticism of his ministry) sensed that he ‘lost’ us Sunday night [...]

Chris and I took the last 3 days for a ‘first’: a working/planning/writing retreat, away from the office!
Just getting away, especially after our pace of late, was exactly what the doctor ordered. She managed to get her next book almost finished, and, more importantly, the creative juices are flowing again.
For me, it was [...]

Returned home early this morning from Pittsburgh – the homegoing celebration for Bishop Garlington’s mother was a terrific time, and for me, it was especially gratifying because of the genuine connections with the Reconciliation! Ministries folks. I don’t mention it often, but when Chris and I walked away from our former faith family about [...]

I left home early this morning to fly to Pittsburgh, PA for a special celebration tonight to mark the home-going of Valdese ‘Muttie’ Garlington, the mother of my pastor and spiritual father, Bishop Joseph Garlington. (My wife helped me figure it out: if Bishop is my ‘father’, then his mother must be my ‘grandmother’, [...]

I spent the better part of my day today with a group of leaders from another congregation. Together we are exploring the possibility of ‘uniting’ our churches, so that they would become our third campus.
(We’re in the early stages of negotiating and exploring this future possibility, but already I’m thinking of the prophetic word we [...]

My friend sent me this link to a report by CBN – please take a few minutes to watch this, and then join me in praying for the Gospel outreach in Turkey. May it again be true as was said in the past: “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church!”Chris [...]

I just received news from a friend who served in Turkey with fresh reasons for us to pray: the pastor/Apostle that CLC is connected to in Ankara, a man who is perhaps the leading voice for Christians in that predominantly-Muslim nation, was recently criticized by the Prime Minister for his strong remarks regarding the recent [...]

Don’t you hate goodbyes? I know I do. But in just 15 days, all of us at CLC will have to say goodbye to some of my favorites, Sam & Heidi Stevens. Sam & Heidi served as our Community Outreach Pastors for the year of 2006, and, even before that, Sam had [...]

There really aren’t. We’re finally back home with family, out of the tuxes & wedding dresses (and especially the unforgiving shoes!) and I’m just looking back on the past few hours and the first wedding of one of our children…and all I can think of is the rush of emotion I felt today.
I’ve said [...]

No, I’m not taking on a new name because of my son’s wedding. But this morning one of our CLCers, Boris Satey, delivered some food from his restaurant to our house for the wedding party and family guests. He came back to me a few minutes later with his daughter Abigail in tow [...]