Get ready for Easter – Sunday and Monday
Posted April 1st, 2007 by Mike Hubbard
OK, so it is Holy Week, otherwise known as the week leading to Easter. If you are like me, you probably blow right through this week without giving it much thought. The week ahead gives us a great opportunity, first to be renewed in our faith as we celebrate the entire reason for it, the […]
Posted in All About Life, Family Life | Tags: Easter, Palm Sunday, Passover
Finding the right organization for your giving
Posted March 28th, 2007 by Mike Hubbard
1 John 3:17-18 (ESV) 17 But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? 18 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. No doubt, one of the ways a […]
Posted in All About Life, Sermon Thoughts | Tags: 1 John, Annie Armstrong, Compassion International, Mocha Club, The Gospel, To Write Love on Her Arms, TWLOHA
St. Patrick
Posted March 17th, 2007 by Mike Hubbard
I wish people would quit with the green clothes. I just don’t own anything I can wear on St. Patrick’s Day, and I’m not going to go out and buy a shirt just so I can wear it once a year. Green clashes with my eyes. March 17 has become a day to celebrate the […]
Posted in All About Life | Tags: St. Patrick, St. Patrick's Day
Daylight Savings time and the Mayberry Cafe
Posted March 5th, 2007 by Mike Hubbard
All the hubbub about Daylight Savings Time starting this week reminded me of one of the, shall I say, less than memorable moments in my work with teenagers (for those who don’t know it, I was a youth pastor for a long time). As a youth pastor, I wanted trips to be memorable, so when […]
Posted in All About Life, Sermon Thoughts
Lent
Posted February 23rd, 2007 by Mike Hubbard
I grew up going to a church that did not observe Lent, so when I heard people talking about what they gave up for Lent, I wasn’t sure what they were talking about. I really couldn’t figure out what the stuff you find in your belly button had to do with eating fish on Fridays […]
Posted in All About Life | Tags: Easter, Fasting, Lent