So Who Is Right?

At the risk of spoiling a perfectly hilarious post by bringing theology into it, who was right, the Presbyterian or the Catholic? Do dogs go to heaven?

There really is a pretty good answer found in the Bible. What do you think?

Working in San Leon, Texas

Earlier this month 40 members of Lifepath Church went to San Leon, which is on the coast, to volunteer at a church serving as a Point of Distribution (POD) for the area. You can see that it's going to take a long time to rebuild after Hurricane Ike. We returned last Saturday with a similar number of folks. A third trip is scheduled soon.

This video of the first trip is also posted on the church website, but I wanted to post it here because I'm so proud to be a part of this church. This is who we want to be.

If you want to be a part of the next trip, keep checking the church website and we should have some info up soon.

This Year's Award For Best Line in a Movie Goes to.....

Viggo Mortensen - "That was over quick."

Ed Harris -"Well, everybody could shoot."

Happy Anniversary, Baby!

Lifepath Church was six months old on October 13. Woohoo! Here's a video from our family worship service.

The Life with God Conference

Last Friday some of the staff of Lifepath and I went to the Life with God conference here in Houston to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the publication of Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster.

Celebration of Discipline helps Protestants to rediscover classic spiritual disciplines such as prayer, fasting, solitude, and other practices which are often neglected in our tradtions. Christianity Today has named it as one of the 20 most influential books of the 20th century.

At the conference we heard speakers such as Dallas Willard, John Ortberg, and Lauren Winner, which is a pretty potent line-up.

As a bonus I reconnected with Dr Robert Sloan who is currently serving as the president of HBU. About a hundred years ago he served as my academic adviser at Baylor and was instrumental in my becoming a pastor. Sitting in his Introduction to the New Testament class was where I first realized that I was called to preach. It was fun talking to him after all these years and I was reminded of why I enjoyed his classes so much.

It was a great day.

Windwood Presbyterian Church

Please keep our friends over at Windwood Presbyterian Church in your prayers. The trustees at Windwood have filed a suit against the PCUSA and the presbytery to get clear claim on their property.

Pray for peace and protection over Windwood and for the situation to be resolved in such a way that the gospel of Jesus Christ is advanced.