Glad you stopped by. Snoop around. Discover some things about us. You are not only welcome here, you are also welcome to share life and faith with us as we look to follow Jesus week in and week out in person. Our aim is to embody the faith of Jesus for the good and blessing… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Shaping Us Toward Monday
What Is Advent?
Lifeway produced a simple and clear video encouraging personal and family celebrations of the Season of Advent. We are glad they are helping those in our Tradition recover this historical spiritually formative Christian Season.… Continue Reading
Preparing for Jesus
Pastor Todd writes a weekly piece for the website, www.gospelhusbands.com. We are re-posting his piece for today as it points to one way you may prepare your family for the Season of Advent. Rick handed me a clipped article from one of his preaching magazines. Written across the top of the first page, “Let’s do… Continue Reading
Addicted to Busy
Pastor Todd writes a weekly article for the Tuttle Times. Many of you may not subscribe to the Times. We will occasionally post his piece here. Addicted to Busy My young friend tells me he will always be a recovering addict. His contention is that everyone is addicted to something. I tell you I am… Continue Reading
What Would Pastor Todd Have Said?
Pastor Todd has been battling kidney stones for nearly a month. After his second procedure last Thursday, he suffered a setback via a severe reaction to an antibiotic. We enjoyed sharing in the Lord’s Supper Sunday/Communion. Nathan gave us a helpful way to think about what it means to share around the Table. Many of… Continue Reading
These Things Ought Not to Be So
From Pastor Todd’s email . . . Texas should not beat Oklahoma or Oklahoma State. Cocanut should not be in chocolate cakes. Nuts should not be in chocolate cookies. A Chevy should never be towed by a Ford. There are some things that should not be. We all tend to choose what makes our own… Continue Reading
Crumbs
Our Gospel text from Mark 7 includes a very troubling incident in the life of Jesus. In order to grasp it we need a bit of history. We also may need to speculate. Jesus sounds mean and insensitive. Or, Jesus offers a sarcastic response that would have more befitted the Pharisees in an attempt to… Continue Reading
Where Would You Go?
From Pastor Todd’s Weekly email … Recently I listened to a story about a tragedy in Guatemala. The event took place, if my memory serves me well, in the early 1980′s. Several times the narrator suggested that if listeners included small children they should consider asking them to leave the room or fast forwarding the… Continue Reading
The Rest of the Story
From Pastor Todd’s Weekly Email . . . I mentioned Sunday that the story of King David troubles me. After the illustration of grace in 2 Samuel 9 everything goes downhill, and fast. As you prepare for worship on Sunday let me ask you to read 2 Samuel 13-18. Why? We left King David hearing… Continue Reading
Decorating
Pastor Todd writes a weekly article for the Tuttle Times. Here is his piece for Memorial Day. We decorate for Christmas and Easter. We adorn our homes on July 4th. Some decorate for New Year’s Day, Halloween, and St. Patrick’s Day. We decorate for Birthdays – houses, cakes, and cookies. Commemorating events with glitz and… Continue Reading
Who Is My Mother?
Pastor Todd writes a weekly article for the Tuttle Times. Here is his piece for Mother’s Day. A young mother recently posted on Facebook that there is nothing sweeter than hearing an older child reading to their younger sibling. P.D. Eastman’s Are You My Mother? was published in 1960 by Random House. (Wikipedia) I remember… Continue Reading