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What To Do with C.E.O.s
They are called CEOs, but it doesn’t stand for Chief Executive Officers. Instead, among religious people CEOs are “Christmas and Easter Only.” In other words, these are the people who come to worship only on or around those two holidays (and maybe Mother’s Day). The nickname may be slightly humorous, but our attitude needs to be extremely serious in reaching out to these people. After all, if we are not doing what we can to teach and encourage, these folks are lost eternally. While this issue is not going to be solved in one blog post, may I give just a handful of practical ideas that might help encourage those…
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Taking Assessment of Your Life
I’m sentimental and nostalgic by nature. I think about the meaning of life on a regular basis and I tend to look back on everything I have experienced up to this point almost daily. Life is an incredible gift from God and we need to keep that fact at the forefront of our minds. But I suppose that a greater portion of the world’s people come to the end of the year and they celebrate Christmas and New Year’s and quickly just go on to the next thing. After all, this is what we have been programmed to do in this fever-pitched, fast-paced 21st-century world. But I want you to…
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A Different Difference
I woke up early recently thinking about the people with whom I worship. I do that a lot more often than many people might imagine. One reason for that has to do with the gratitude I feel for them for being a real family to us when none of our physical family lived near us. These good people have been with us through many good times and times that were not so good. I also have these people on my mind a great deal of the time because I try to serve as one of our elders. The responsibility that goes with that means that I don’t always get the…
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Episode 114: Majoring in Majors, Doing Things that are Their Own Reward, and More [Podcast]
https://media.blubrry.com/faughnfamily/content.blubrry.com/faughnfamily/Legacy_Podcast_114.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS(Player not displaying or working? Click here to listen.) On this week’s podcast, Adam and Leah share a lot of thoughts for parents. Using two resources, they talk about making sure families major in what is really important, and then discuss how we need to involve children in activities that are their own reward (gardening, cooking, etc.). Resources “The Major Thing” (Refuge Church) “What If…” (Facebook) More from A Legacy of Faith To subscribe to A Legacy of Faith by email for free click here. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes Subscribe via rss Find us on Stitcher Radio Visit the show archives
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Shared Thoughts about Servant Hearts
We recently had our first annual Holiday Banquet at our congregation. This was an event planned by those in our congregation who are 64 years old and younger to honor those of us who are 65 and older. It was very well attended and there were lots of members who did a lot of work to execute the plan for this event. There were young children, teens, young adults, young families, middle-aged people, and those on the very doorstep of 65 years of age who worked together to make this evening a success. We had a wonderful dinner and some great entertainment – all done by our members. Those of…
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As My Children Get Older…
They are now 13 and 11. Some days, the realization of time passing with them in my home just hits me harder than others. Maybe the holiday season makes me think of it more, but it’s been on my mind a lot lately. I only have a handful of years before these precious arrows are launched into the world. In reality, only then will it be realized whether or not I have prepared them to face Satan’s temptations and a world that is increasingly against virtually everything we stand for. But I have so much I want to teach them. I have so much I want them to learn and…
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How Does a Christian Protest?
I have a question for you to consider and answer. Feel free to contact me about it if you wish because I am searching for some opinions on this. Please understand I am seeking what is best in God’s eyes and for myself and the future of our world. I’m trying to figure out in 2018 what a Christian is supposed to do when it comes to speaking publicly against what is an abomination in the eyes of God. I received a call today from someone in our community about something that is happening at our public library. Apparently, a local group of transvestites has been dressing up (mostly men…
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A Life Lesson from the Man Called “Bear”
These days, it seems that we read and hear more than we would like to read or hear about the misbehavior of athletes and coaches. Some of that goes way beyond misbehavior. It is absolutely immoral and, all too often, illegal. Howell Bigham recently posted the following material on Facebook. I had heard some of this before, but I am reproducing it here in order to “get the story right” and to remind us of a positive life lesson. I am not, in any way, suggesting that all of today’s athletes and coaches are bad people. Neither am I suggesting that all of those who filled these roles years ago (including the one referenced…
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He Was the Patriarch
He had a father. Yet his father was not known as the patriarch. While we don’t know much about Terah, Joshua 24:2 specifically includes him as one of those who “dwelt on the other side of the River in old times; and … served other gods.” On the other hand, Abram, his son, is called “the friend of God” because he “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness” (James 2:23). Throughout the book of Genesis, we read of the faith of Abraham. Not that he was a perfect man, as God lets us see some of his fears (Gen. 12:12) and his mistakes (Gen. 16). However, there is…
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True Leaders are True Servants
It was the night that should have defined his life. In fact, in the eyes of the watching world, it likely did, but even those who were watching may not have realized why. He was already a powerful and influential man, as he served as Vice-President of the United States. But this was–if things went the right way–to be his night. He had campaigned for President and was a favorite to win that highest office. Election returns started coming in that evening and things really were looking his way. Quite early in the evening, it was obvious he was going to be the President-elect and, early the next year, be sworn…
