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	Come Thou, Almighty Icing! Sometimes churches say things that fail to communicate what they mean. A friend sent me a photograph of a church sign that had on its marquee, “Don’t Let Worries Kill You — Let the Church Help.” I once heard a preacher describe his visit to Hoover Dam. He said, “I looked over the whole dam project.” When he realized how that sounded, his face turned red, and he immediately said, “I mean, the whole project of the ... Read Article »
	Preacher’s kid lost in New York As a boy, I was “double trouble” — a preacher’s kid and an Army brat. My father was a chaplain in the U.S. Army. When I was in the seventh grade, Dad was stationed at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn, New York, in order to attend Chaplain’s School. I attended Public School 104, which was in an Irish-Catholic neighborhood. It was a good school with strict discipline and excellent academics. Soon after school started that fall, we learned ... Read Article »
	Church by the Side of the Road and other funny church names Recently, I heard about a church named “Church by the Side of the Road.” No doubt there was a good reason for this name, although the name conjured up pictures in my head of a church broken down and abandoned on the roadside. I once served as pastor of Calhoun Baptist Church in Hot Coffee, Miss. I told the congregation that it would be fun to change the name of the church to Hot Coffee Baptist ... Read Article »
	Why senior adults never show up late If there is anything I have learned in ministry, it is that senior adults do not show up late for anything. They are early. Once when I was a pastor in Mississippi, I took a group of senior adults on a tour of Natchez. I told them to meet me at the church van at 9:30 a.m. the next morning. When I got to the van at 9:20 a.m., they were all in the van ... Read Article »