Missionary to the New Hebrides Islands (1824-1907) While still newlyweds, John and Mary Paton sailed away from their Scotland home to become missionaries to the islands of the South Seas in 1858. Months later they landed in the New Hebrides Islands and began to build a house and start a new life there together. From [...]
Yesterday, my wife Jody and I celebrated twenty-two years of marriage. And I want to publicly acknowledge God’s grace in granting us the evidence of His favor. As I look back on our marriage, I can see God’s hand in growing us closer to Him and with one another. I remember the day I first [...]
I’ve just finished reading the classic children’s book series, The Chronicles of Narnia, written by C.S. Lewis, for the first time. I had read parts of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe before, but never the entire series in sequence. So I finally got around to reading the series because I wanted something fun and substantial [...]
February 10, 2011 – 4:29 PM
Yesterday afternoon I was given a vision by the Lord. No, it wasn’t anything magical or mystical, but it was powerful nonetheless. I was doing a late afternoon jog in my old neighborhood until I stopped to rest at a familiar location. It was right in front of the storage facility that we used to [...]
January 28, 2011 – 2:25 PM
It’s time once again for our annual Missions Conference. The theme for this year is “Open Doors.” Our good people from the headquarters of the Christian and Missionary Alliance have put together a wonderful media package promoting the Missions Conference. Here’s what they have to say about this year’s conference: The Alliance is committed to [...]
January 26, 2011 – 10:21 AM
We’ve just begun a study on John Piper’s book Desiring God for my Young Adult Sunday School class. And I’m happy to announce that it’s been met with great interest, both from my regular classmates and some new ones as well. John Piper is the Pastor for Preaching and Vision at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. [...]
November 23, 2010 – 10:36 AM
This coming Sunday morning, November 28, 2010, I will begin teaching a new 6-week study during my Young Adult Sunday School class on the person and work of Jesus Christ entitled, Knowing Jesus. We just completed our 8-week membership class, where among other things we discussed the classic Alliance doctrines of Jesus as Savior, Sanctifier, [...]
September 27, 2010 – 4:13 PM
On Sunday morning, October 3, 2010, our church will begin teaching a new membership class during the Sunday School hour which begins at 9:30 a.m. I will be teaching the class which will meet in the Little House and it’s open to anyone who wants to consider church membership in our church or simply wants [...]
September 17, 2010 – 1:29 PM
On Tuesday evening, September 14, 2010, I was ordained to the gospel ministry at the Southeastern District Conference of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Sarasota, Florida. Although I had been ordained before with the Southern Baptist church that I had served previously, it was a real honor to go through the process again with the C&MA. [...]
September 9, 2010 – 4:42 PM
The entire world will be paying attention to what takes place this Saturday night, September 11 in Gainesville, Florida. But not for the right reasons. Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center is still planning to burn copies of the Quran, despite the outrage from Muslims and from the public at large. Whatever his reasons are [...]