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For Wilshire Baptist Church

I try to write something new in this space every week, but with Pentecost Sunday coming this weekend, I want to share something that I’ve said before.

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As much as I love our pastor and all of those who preach, pray, and lead us in worship on Sunday mornings, the priests at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris get extra credit for doing all of that while hundreds of tourists mill around looking, talking, and taking pictures. 

Continue reading “Another Pentecost Moment”

For Wilshire Baptist Church

In grade school in North Texas in the late 1960s we had three emergency drills: fire, tornado and bomb. That’s all we kids had to worry about aside from bad grades or being sent to the office for acting up.

We had fire drills because buildings have burned down ever since humans learned how to make fire. We had tornado drills because we’re at the southern end of “tornado alley” and tornadoes can spin up whenever the temperature shifts quickly from cold to hot or vice versa. The bomb drills were a remnant of the cold war fear that the Soviet Union might try to start World War III. That drill eventually went away, and tornado drills also faded as meteorological science improved the ability to forecast storms hours in advance. In fact, today schools sometimes will send kids home early or delay the start of school if bad weather is in the forecast.

Continue reading “This is Not a Drill”

For Wilshire Baptist Church

Leaving Wilshire on Monday night after deacons meeting, I saw ahead of me an SUV that was turning right from Abrams onto Northwest Highway. I’ve gone home that way a thousand times but I chose not to this time, because the SUV was traveling without lights. When it slowed at the intersection, the brake lights lit up, but before and after that, the SUV was almost invisible. I took another route because I was tired and afraid.

Continue reading “Dimwits and Headlights”