We conducted our annual Business meeting for CLC last night, and I’m sincerely thankful to be a part of this congregation, for 2 big reasons:
1. I’m thankful that we don’t have to battle with disunity and dissension and division like I’ve sometimes seen and heard with other ministries. I mean, in this time when our [...]

Another good weekend in terms of attendance (I sometimes wonder why January is always one of our strongest months – is it New Year’s resolutions or that the weather is so bad there’s nothing else to do? Regardless, I’m thankful!)Also thankful for the response to the teaching about Workplace Heroes, and praying that God [...]

Maybe I should say coming home different! These past few days at the Reconciliation Ministries team meeting in Orlando have really just been a continuation or extension of what God was doing in us during our First Love Conf. last weekend.
In all honesty, there’s been so much to process in both meetings, that I’m [...]

What a day.
Jon Jones and I arrived in Orlando after a routine 2-hour flight from Midway, rented a car, and then spent 2.5 hours in bumper-to-bumper traffice enroute to our hotel, which was 9 miles from the airport. (Evidently a tanker truck had exploded on the freeway, causing it to be completely closed, and [...]

I’ll be catching a flight to Orlando in a couple hours, when Jon Jones and I go there to attend the Reconciliation Ministries annual Team Meeting. Besides the network business, we’ll be in more sessions with Bishop Garlington and others like Gary Nellis and Eric Butler. And the meeting is hosted by Dr. [...]

It doesn’t happen often to a preacher, but I really am speechless about this past weekend.
How do you put into words what we experienced?I haven’t even started to process what I personally heard & experienced – and by that I mean, just the stuff that was coming to me, not all the wonderful things that [...]

WOW. Don’t know what else to say about the first ‘half’ of our “First Love Conference” this weekend. If you weren’t able to attend, you really must get the CD’s or DVD’s of the services, or check it out on our website once the conference is posted here.
My suggestion is that you not [...]

I apologize publicly for a previous post here (now deleted, so no need to look for it) in which I responded to the question about “why people leave churches”. I should never have engaged in that discussion via the anonymous medium of the internet, since it allows anyone to say anything without any evidence [...]

Well, the 10-days of Prayer & Fasting will be over in just a few hours, and our 2008 “First Love Conference” begins in just a couple of days – so here’s my questions:
1. What were you fasting for? (specific prayer requests or desires)
2. What are you expecting from this weekend?
C’mon, all of [...]

The big surprise I mentioned in my last post is that Dr. Mark Chironna will not be coming for the Conf. on Sunday evening as planned. He has been experiencing health problems of late, and his doctor advised him not to travel, so we received the cancellation notice on Monday.
Instead, I’m pleased to report [...]