Monthly Archives: October 2015

Keyser and Frankfort Football

Posted on October 31, 2015 by He stirs up the people...

I moved to Mineral County in West Virginia just under two and a half years ago as the new pastor of a Short Gap church.  A few months after I got here I read an article about Keyser High School … Continue reading →

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Should Christians pray in public?

Posted on October 30, 2015 by He stirs up the people...

Thirty years ago our society believed in public prayer and expressions of faith, and believed in keeping sex and sexual details in the privacy of the home – behind closed doors.  Oh, how the times have changed.  Now sex is … Continue reading →

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And this is their testimony…. Joey & Rory

Posted on October 27, 2015 by He stirs up the people...

There is a husband and wife country music duo named Joey and Rory.  I’d honestly never heard of them until I read that the female part of the couple, Joey, had cancer and the treatments weren’t working and they had … Continue reading →

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Pastor Appreciation Month

Posted on October 26, 2015 by He stirs up the people...

the measure of a pastor’s ministry is not measured by how many people are stuffed in the building, but instead by how Christlike the people in the building are Continue reading →

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The House(s) That Built Me

Posted on October 25, 2015 by He stirs up the people...

It’s not uncommon for me to sit in the pastor’s office (temporarily called ‘my’ office) or at the front of the church and listen to a song over and over and just sit there crying for various reasons.  I don’t … Continue reading →

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We act like we can hide things

Posted on October 23, 2015 by He stirs up the people...

This morning I saw that a parent had written that they were seeing their college freshman’s texts on their own phone.  They were asking for help on how to keep from seeing them.  There was a setting in their phone … Continue reading →

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You’ll know when the time is right

Posted on October 22, 2015 by He stirs up the people...

Most Wednesdays I remove my phone from the case so I can plug it into the sound system in the church basement and listen to music and sermons as I prepare our community dinner.  My case has needed replaced for … Continue reading →

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The road to hell is marked with signs that say “heaven”

Posted on October 20, 2015 by He stirs up the people...

Do you remember watching the Road Runner and the Coyote and the Road Runner would always turn the signs?  He would point the sign that says “This Way–>” over the cliff.  And what would happen?  The Coyote would follow the … Continue reading →

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My life of comfort

Posted on October 19, 2015 by He stirs up the people...

Last night I was on the couch.  I had the television on flipping back and forth between baseball and football, paying little attention to either.  I had just made a pot of decaf coffee and had some cheese sticks baking … Continue reading →

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Don’t volunteer in the church

Posted on October 7, 2015 by He stirs up the people...

This morning I got a message and someone thanked me for volunteering for something in the community.  We all know what the word volunteer means.  Sometimes people use that word in church.  Using the term in church is a pet … Continue reading →

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