Two events occur this week, one today, Mother’s Day, remembered and celebrated throughout the land. The other occurs this coming Thursday, a day which marks the ascension of our Lord into heaven but with hardly any notice at all. It isn’t noted on our calendars. It has no commercial ...
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Joe and Bev Fitzpatrick and their family. You will remember they began their ministry in Manila, Joe’s primary responsibilities being seminary instruction. Later, they moved to Puerto Rico (Joe’s mother is ...
Anyone want to guess the age of the Presbyterian Church in America? The PCA has been together for forty years – one biblical generation. Why a generation? In biblical thought and reckoning, a generation consists of forty years. Perhaps a generation (i.e., forty years) signifies the time it ...
Last Sunday morning was a special time for our church. Something like this happens just once a year. We aren’t prepared for it. It just takes place one Sunday morning. We’re talking about the reception of seven of our younger friends into our church fellowship. What took place to get ...
World Changers 4/15
Easter has come and gone; special choir music, beautiful flower arrangements, times with friends over an Easter meal, all of it over but the fleeting memory. We race into the present. But wait. Didn't we hear this past Sunday morning that the Apostle Paul makes references ...
Holy Week. We wonder what must those days have meant to him? How did the four Gospel writers think about it? Many are unaware that Matthew, Mark, Luke and John devoted a hugely disproportionate amount of space to this final week – in Luke's case a quarter of his Gospel, in the case of ...
David Cunningham’s style of speaking is somewhat unique. Some may remember him as one of our mission conference speakers a few years ago. It was a great pleasure to have him with us once more. Now we need to pray for this family of six as they adjust to life in a southern Alabama culture ...
It started May 7, 1998, with a letter from Frank Barker, pastor of Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The letter began "I am writing to inform you of an exciting new mission that I thought your church might like to support. David Cunningham, a former staff member at Briarwood, ...
Every now and then something I read catches my eye. When that happens, I wonder if it should appear in World Changers. I believe this one does.It isn’t a review of a book. It is a condensation of thoughts that appear in a recently published book titled, “Your Church ...
A story about handbells doesn’t appear very often, least of all in this little space. But the story needs to be told, however, because all of us need constant reminders of the Lord’s grace at work in our lives individually and in the life of His church.The story is about our ...