Survival shows are a big hit on TV. The truth of what is being done is perhaps questionable. TV has a way of being deceptive. The idea is that contestants are challenged to live on an island, eat worms, jump from high places, etc., in hopes they will…

Thought I’d give a quick update on the tally from yesterday’s Commitments. We have 311 commitments of dedicated volunteers re-signing or enlisting for the first time to work at the FMCOG. In addition, of the 311 commitments forms there are well over 1000 different areas that people have volunteered to serve! Truly there is no […]

I have not slept well lately. OK, truth is I seldom sleep well, but lately, it had been far worse. Last night, I was so exhausted, and I actually slept a little over 7 hours which is really good for me, but when I awakened, I felt more tired than ever….

The #ourCOG called Wesley a “Vitalized shuttlecock” I have not clue what that means but… snaps ( #LikeAMightyArmy, 14)

I thought the Sound of Praise summed up perfectly my attitude going forward following July’s “Sabbath month” when they sang the lyrics, “I’m not going back, I moving ahead…” I will not – must not – go back to “business as usual.”  I will not allow Sabbath to become a joyless and legalistic duty but I cannot go back […]

“I’ve been an LMR only a few weeks, and I wasn’t really sure what I should be doing, but now I am going back to my church with the tools I need to do what I think will be a good job,” commented one of last week’s LMR seminar attendees…

“O Make Your church, dear Savior, a lamp of purest gold to bear before the nations Your true light as of old” -William W. How, 1823-1897 When I started writing last night I took myself on a rant. A blithering, angsty rant about how we have become consumers of worship. That we have adopted the […]