Friends, Thursday I drove to Houston and back. On I-10 and all around Houston, there were signs instructing drivers to fill up their gas tanks because there was a storm brewing in the gulf. We need full tanks to get through the storms that are forming in the gulf, in our world and in our...
Friends, I know the weather doesn’t suggest it, but fall is just around the corner. I am so excited to share the plans we have for Wednesday nights at University. I believe this is a great opportunity for us to grow as a unified community and as followers of Christ. Eating...
Dear Friends, I have to say this has been one amazing summer. And although the heat doesn’t appear to be going anywhere anytime soon, I can definitely feel that this season is coming to a close. Maybe it’s all the classroom supplies that are starting to fill the aisles of...
But Jesus immediately said to them:“Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”-Matthew 14:27 Friends, There are few instructions or commands found in scripture that occur anywhere near the frequency of “Do not be...
Friends, Maybe it was the trip back to East Texas for the 4th but home has been on my heart. I remember when I was in college the first time standing in my parent’s kitchen that I said that it...
Friends, It is Vacation Bible School week. The building has been filled to the brim with children, students, and adult volunteers. It has been large, loud, and filled with energy. It has been fantastic. There are churches that seldom hear the laughter of children blessing the walls by bouncing...
So let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap at harvest time, if we do not give up.-Galatians 6:9 Friends, It is hot. I mean…really hot. This spring the weather was wonderful, and it held on longer than I dared hope, but as a result, there seemed to be no...
Friends, It is annual conference week, which means lay leaders and clergy from churches all over the Rio Texas Conference are gathered in Corpus Christi to worship, learn, and ‘conference’ together. Conferencing goes back to 1744 when John Wesley gathered other leaders of...
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.Romans 8:28 Friends, We are told in scripture that God made a good world but that humanity quickly made a mess of things. We wake each day as heirs of a good world in which much has...
“But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads in every place the fragrance that comes from knowing him. For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved…”Paul to the believers in Corinth Friends, I...
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