A Prayer for 2020 Garland Hamic, Carol Barger, Bill Elliott, and I attended the Faith in Texas Annual Meeting on Monday evening at Communities Foundation of Texas. Staff, leadership, lay people, and clergy from Faith in Texas and partnering...
Growing Deep Roots In this Advent season, we are doing the work of Christmas. And the work we must do comes from a powerful poem written by the Rev. Dr. Howard Thurman. In this poem, as outlined in the previous issue of the Mosaic and my sermon...
Advent Devotionals by Jill Duffield, editor of the Presbyterian Outlook.
God Has a Plan I often hear in ministry circles that God has a plan for everyone and everything. And although I get uncomfortable thinking that God is in control when evil and hurt is still very present in the world, I am sure that God’s...
You Have a Deacon!andEnthusiasm for Christ(From 10/31/2019 – Weekly Mosaic) In Acts 6, the Greek-speaking Jews complained to the Hebrew-speaking Jews that their widows were being neglected during the distribution of food and supplies. In...
Showing Up The Christian Community Development Association was in Dallas this year. Last week, a thousand fellow organizers and activists gathered downtown to spend a couple of days worshiping, networking, and learning from experienced...
Dancing with God I’ve seen an article making the rounds on social media about the positive effects dancing has on the brain. “As we grow older we suffer a decline in mental and physical fitness, which can be made worse by conditions...