Look for the Lovely
It can be very difficult sometimes to look for the good ... for the lovely thing ... in people and in situations. When we’re hurt or sick or broken or misunderstood, often our minds and hearts go on the defensive and wonder why ... why me ... why this ... why now?
Growing Up In Greenhills - Week One
Each week in the “Waiting on God BLOG”, I will introduce you to one or more of the adventures and sometimes misadventures of a young boy growing up in Greenhills. The town is real, but much of the storyline is fictional and so are the characters. This week you meet the community of Greenhills and a quirky kid named ZT.
The Order of the Basin and Towel
It is Thursday night, the night before Jesus was to be crucified. In John 13:1-2 we read that Jesus' hour had come, and he would soon be dead. This was his destiny and these men with him were his beloved disciples, the men he had chosen and the Father had given him.
What is Maundy Thursday?
In some traditions, churches will have evening worship services to remember the time of teaching in the Upper Room where Jesus taught the first Lord’s Supper. We call those worship services Maundy Thursday services. I remember a man asking me “Pastor what is ‘Maundy Thursday”? He was new to the church. Some of you might also be asking “What is Maundy Thursday?” Most people know what Good Friday is and I am reasonably sure the vast majority of people know about Easter. But, I would hazard a guess that most do not know what Maundy Thursday is.
My Personal Jesus Revolution
February 1969 was just like any February in my life up to now, at least that is what I thought. I was a freshman in high school and I found myself on a Young Life retreat at a Salvation Army Youth camp in southern Ohio. I had been attending Young Life, a Christian youth outreach that met weekly, since school started in September 1968. Also, I went every Thursday morning to Teen Breakfast Club, a youth outreach ministry of College Hill Presbyterian Church.