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Archive for March, 2017

Join Me for the Q&A?

Join Me for the Q&A? Maybe somewhere along the way you were told that your honest doubts and questions could never be voiced – especially about matters of faith and especially at church. Well, if it ever was true before, it’s no longer the case at Ingleside. This past week about 150 folks participated in our first Q&A. So, again this Sunday, April 2, immediately after the close of our 11:00 a.m. services, I will host a 30 minute question & answer session in our...

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Doubts and Questions?

Maybe somewhere along the way you learned that your honest doubts and questions could never be voiced – especially about matters of faith and especially at church. Well, if it ever was true, it’s no longer the case at Ingleside. Beginning this Sunday, March 26, immediately after the close of our 11:00 a.m. services, I will host a 30-minute question & answer session in our Worship Center. If you join us, you will have an opportunity to ask me your questions about the sermon...

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30 Years and Counting!

It was on March 14, 1987 – 30 years ago this past Tuesday – that my wife, Beverly, and I said “I do.” We could not have known then that the Lord’s plan was to bring us to Macon and to Ingleside in 1989, or that two girls would be born and reared, and launched into life from here. But now, from a three-decades-in perspective, we see that in ways far too many to number the Lord has “dealt bountifully” with us (Psalm 13:6) and that “the lines” of our lives “have...

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Robust and Relevant

Merriam-Webster defines these two terms this way: robust – a: having or exhibiting strength or vigorous health; b: having or showing vigor, strength, or firmness; c:  strongly formed or constructed relevant – a: having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand; synonyms include words like: germane, pertinent, and applicable, the latter meaning “bringing a general rule or principle to bear upon a particular case” I have contemplated a question quite often...

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One A Day?

Where does your mind go when you hear “one a day”?  My thoughts go to vitamins. In fact, “one a day” is a registered trademark of Bayer Healthcare LLC under which they market a family of fifteen or so different multivitamin products.  Bayer first introduced the “one a day” line in 1940. The idea is simple and compelling.  Take one vitamin every day and it will improve your overall physical health and wellbeing. A Chapter a Day.  In a similar way, last year I began...

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