March 8 Sonny’s Sayings

I wanted to take a second and talk about a couple of things you might be interested in. First, the deacons met last week and talked about our need for developing an even deeper investment in the youth and their families at our church. We need to build fellowship,...

March 1 Sonny’s Sayings

When you look at our order of worship, it is broken into 3 important categories which describe an effective approach to worship. The first thing we do is we take some time to enter into worship. All of us come into the worship space with things on our mind: a...

February 22 Sonny’s Sayings

I was grateful the other week when one of the deacons reminded me that last year our focus was on engaging, the first part of our church’s vision statement: God calls Central Baptist to engage, encourage, and empower families and individuals to follow Christ. There...

February 15 Sonny’s Sayings

So I was getting Carson dressed on Thursday morning, the day we were heading for our ski trip. It was yet another day of scrounging around the house for clean cold weather clothes, something it feels like we have had to find more of than any other winter since our...

February 8 Sonny’s Sayings

In our Wednesday Bible study, we have been looking at the book of Exodus. As we have studied, I have been surprised by how often the subject of Sabbath comes up in the book, and how seriously God takes it. It comes up first in the provision of manna in the wilderness....

January 25 Sonny’s Sayings

This last Wednesday night, we studied a portion of Exodus where it talked about how Aaron and his sons were to be consecrated as priests, and how they were to enter into the tabernacle. The description of the process they were to undergo was incredibly detailed, with...