Jun 26, 2014 | Sonny's Sayings
In The Spiritual Life, John Westerhoff and John Eusden write: “Our primary orientation cannot be an institution or some great cause or even other people, but first and forever to God. Unless our identity is hid in God we will never know who we are or what we are to...
Jun 19, 2014 | Sonny's Sayings
As Baptists, one of things we should have some confession time around is the fact that we are pretty non-committal and indifferent when it comes to the Holy Spirit. We are people of the Word, so long as the Word pertains to God the Father and Creator, or Jesus, God’s...
Jun 12, 2014 | Sonny's Sayings
We are going to be spending time together this summer working on learning to love one another better than we have been as a church. You will hear more of a report soon about the work of the Dawnings team that is working on visioning and next steps as a church, but let...
Jun 5, 2014 | Sonny's Sayings
As I was walking back to my office today, I noticed that there was a light on in room 4. I immediately started to wonder who was having a meeting today. But as I passed, I saw the beautiful quilt that we have been putting together since our family retreat in January,...
May 29, 2014 | Sonny's Sayings, Uncategorized
How do we experience God in times of turmoil? Our church is facing some difficult decisions today and next Sunday, and it is certainly a time of turmoil. Turmoil hits us in our personal lives, our working lives, our retired lives, and in our community lives. It is a...
May 22, 2014 | Sonny's Sayings
On Sunday afternoon, while I was enjoying the food from the 30th anniversary of Trinity Baptist in Conyers, Georgia, I began receiving news that Jim Shoopman had preached an excellent sermon here at Central. I asked him to send me a manuscript of what he said, and I...
