By Mike Riley

Dear Preacher,

You often stress attendance at worship as important. But I think a fellow has a right to miss now and then. Please have me excused for the following reasons:

By Mike Riley

Yes….I think perhaps I will do better this time around. I have learned from my past mistakes and surely I won’t repeat the same ones again! Right?

Excerpt taken from The Effective Edge by Gregory Alan Tidwell.

With the start of the New Year and the setting of goals and resolutions, this excerpt seemed very appropriate and timely.

“The need for a holistic understanding shows through in our approach to planning. Some passages of Scripture, in isolation, make it sound evil and arrogant to plan. Consider, for example, the words of Christ in Matthew 6: 25-34: (Space did not permit typing out the passage.)

Excerpt taken from The Effective Edge by Gregory Alan Tidwell.

Peter described those who willfully disregard the beginning and the end: “For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished, But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgement and destruction of the unglodly” (2 Peter 3: 5-7).