Monthly Archives: March 2021

I remember last Easter. I felt the excitement and joy of preaching on the resurrection but it was very different. No one was in the building hardly. The pews were empty. I could hardly tell anyone was celebrating the risen Christ except through text messages and Facebook comments that I read after. It felt weird. But this...

The challenges of the past year have taught me some lessons about doing collegiate ministry that I might otherwise never have learned. For example, I have long thought that success is measured by how many students show up, but now I believe success is measured in the depth of students, not the number of students. I also used...

Easy Street and Hemphill Street intersect. One must choose their direction at the intersection. Since 1959 the Southside church has chosen Hemphill over Easy Street. Hemphill has always challenged. And for six decades, Spirit-led people have accepted the challenge to minister and to love the Diversity and the Need that is Hemphill. The physically handicapped or physically broken The...

Have you ever noticed that in a movie, the music makes all the difference? There’s a few videos you can watch on YouTube that change the music to iconic movie scenes, and the feel of the entire scene changes because of the shift in music. A romantic scene might turn into a horror scene, only because...