Your next door neighbor? The colleague you like to joke with in the employee lounge? Your aunt grieving a recent loss? That relative who sometimes talks dismissively about Christianity? The nice couple you met last week on the Square? Your best friend? Your worst enemy? The stranger you just...
Several years ago, I was visiting London on Ascension Day when I had the chance to observe an ancient custom called "Beating the Bounds." I can't even remember which Anglican church I was visiting, but I'll never forget the Vicar saying that, for almost 800 years, Christians had marched around...
One of our church's goals is to engage our community for Christ. One way I have sought to do that is by making myself available to pray in a wide variety of public settings. Just this week, our County Commissioner, my friend J.J. Koch, asked me to pray for the Dallas County Commissioners Court...
The pioneers who founded Carrollton, Texas, were people who trusted Jesus Christ and his resurrection. When they arrived in the mid-1840's—just a few years after the Battle of the Alamo—what is now Dallas County was a very dangerous place. The folks who moved here had to put up with...
Leslie and I recently purchased a car seat for our newborn granddaughters. Printed on the box, in bold letters, were the daunting words "Some Assembly Required." You can guess what's coming next! Leslie and I are both sixty years old, with college degrees, and yet assembling that car seat took a...
In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul reflects extensively on the intimate connection between Jesus' resurrection and the witness of Jesus' disciples—Cephas, the twelve, the five-hundred, James, "the rest of the apostles," and finally Paul himself. Since then, their witness has been passed down across...
Easter is a season not just a single day. The season is based on the Gospel accounts of Jesus' activities between the time when he was raised from the dead and when he sent the Holy Spirit. Traditionally Christians have taken these fifty days—from Easter Sunday up to Pentecost...
Easter is just days away! Several of us at Christ Church Carrollton will gather on Good Friday, April 19, at 6:30pm to reflect on the crucifixion, and then we will gather again on Easter morning, April 21, at 10:30am to celebrate the resurrection. Were it not for Easter, Good Friday wouldn't be...
Dustin Messer is dear to all of us at Christ Church Carrollton. He served among us as Pastoral Assistant for four years, and he and his wife Whitney made many close friends. The Messers left Christ Church last September for Dustin to pursue ministry opportunities in the Anglican Church, and on...
It's official. We've moved to 326 E Tyler St, Richardson, TX 75081. As of last Friday, March 29, our new neighborhood is called Highland Terrace, a wonderful mixture of ages, ethnicities, and economic and social statuses. Our across-the-street neighbor is a lovely artist; there's a very cool...