The band from Highlands

http://www.highlandsworship.com/arise.html  This is the worship band (live recording) from the church my son and daughter-in-law attend in Birmingham – http://www.churchofthehighlands.com/welcome.html  I have referred to it as a mega-church minus the attitude, that has real worship without a lot of the show-biz.

Maybe I just think too much

I really don’t enjoy always being the odd-man-out who swims upstream. It just works out that way.  I mentioned Easter in an earlier post. Easter is a problem for me as a pastor. Oh, I don’t mean that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is a problem, or even that celebrating that resurrection is a problem. … Read more

My review of Mac24-7

We went to Waikiki after church Sunday with a party of 11 to try the massive pancakes we had heard about. Mac24-7 is located in the Hilton Prince Kuhio, the former Radisson Waikiki. The hotel and restaurant have had a complete make-over, and it was nicely done. We had a private dining room with a … Read more

Gingantic pancakes

The biggest order of pancakes I have ever seen… 3 layers 14″ and loaded with filling. At Mac24-7 in Waikiki. It’s a gut-buster. Sent from my iPhone

The special service issue

I am always torn between the expectations of some of my members, who want an Easter extravaganza, and my heart, which tells me that special services sabotage the course of local church development. As a friend recently reminded me, “what we win them WITH, we win them TO.”