Happy Monday

The Christma-Hallo-Thanksmas season is upon us. I don’t know about where you live but we’re still running the AC here.

This is Happy Monday #447.

Happy Monday

Coffee with Jesus: Spirit of the Games from way back in 2012. So much has changed just in the past couple of years but this goes to show that some things never do. As it stands now in Tokyo, the United States leads in total medals with 60 but China is once again ahead in gold 24 to 20.

This is Happy Monday #438.

Happy Monday

The 2020 Olympic Games are finally underway. The United States has pulled ahead in the number of gold medals but China still leads in total medals. Plenty of action still to come. This is Happy Monday #437.

Happy Monday

This is Happy Monday #436.

Happy Monday

We can share scripture, prayers and words of encouragement but you have to actually drink the coffee yourself.

This is Happy Monday #409.

Happy Monday

No meme, no punchline. It’s just beautiful isn’t it?

This is Happy Monday #395.

A Biblical Perspective

If you are a follower of The Master’s Table, or a former student, or have ever listened to me preach, teach Sunday School or lead a small group of any kind, you know by now that I do not pick up a recent newspaper and use the headlines for talking points about Bible prophesy. During Advent I talk about prophecies of the Messiah being fulfilled by Jesus’s birth and the events surrounding it. During Easter and Pentecost I talk about prophesies Jesus fulfilled during his earthly ministry, his death, burial and resurrection, and the promise we have of his future return. What I have never done is point to earthquakes, volcanoes, war in the Middle East or any other current event while quoting snippets of scripture and saying “See, the Bible says so.” I’ve seen preachers and other church leaders look foolish when Mikhail Gorbachev did not turn out to be the antichrist, Saddam Hussein was not the Beast described in Revelation and the world did not end in 1988 despite the list of 88 reasons that it was going to.

A Bible Story, pt. 2

When I showed my mother the new Bible I got for Christmas (part 1 if you haven’t read it) she mentioned needed a new Bible. Mom still carries the same Bible that Dad gave her back in the late 1980’s. She keeps it in a cover which may have been replaced a time or two. The Bible inside is over 30 years old and has pictures, newspaper clippings and notes from grandkids stuck in between the pages here and there. She wanted to know if my new Bible was a “real Bible” or something else. I knew exactly what she meant. That comes from spending a lifetime with a KJV only husband/preacher.

A Bible Story, pt. 1

I was ordained as a minister at Pleasant Hope Baptist Church in Silver Creek, GA back in March of 2004. My pastor at the time, Mike Jones, had already asked me what version of the Bible I would like to receive at the ordination service. We were new to full time ministry, serving as state missionaries in Kentucky, and I had recently been introduced to the English Standard Version (ESV) by Michael Spencer. Mike Jones presented me with a thinline ESV, bound in black, which I carried on a regular basis for the next nine years in Kentucky. I preached from it in chapel, led BCM, taught Sunday and preached as pulpit supply as well as reading through it from cover to cover a few times. We “came home” in 2012 and visited a few churches before joining Trinity in Calhoun, where I was soon active in Sunday School, helping with church youth, preaching on a regular basis and eventually leading men’s ministry (still referred to as Brotherhood in some areas). After 15 years of regular use my trusty Thinline was looking worse for wear, the spine held together with some very distinguished looking black duct tape if I say so myself.

Happy Monday

It’s Monday, time to do that thing we do here.

This is Happy Monday #346.