Entries from July 2008

July 22, 2008

All I Ever Needed to Know I Learned At VBS

  For some of you, summer is already “post V.B.S.”  Some had it so early you are already mowing in the t-shirt.  For us it all starts Sunday night.  At this point I am not sure what to expect.  Its unfamiliar territory for all of us at South Main.  For the congregation, this is the [...]

July 10, 2008

No More Sleeping In Church

 It has been a great week in Greenville.  We were excited to have 162 for a regular Sunday service.  It just seemed the crowd kept coming in.  It was our largest crowd since we’ve been here. We have been all excited that our attendance rose from the 120 area to the 140 area… 162 in [...]

July 4, 2008

Fourth of July in Vicksburg… an interesting quandry

   A few years back I was reading about the Vietnam war and several writers were trying tie up the loose ends about why it was such a bulldozer to the American psyche.  One guy observed that it was simple… we didn’t know how to lose a war; after all, we’d never done it before.  [...]