Posts from August 2024
SOUND WORDS, AUG. 11TH, 2024
LIVING AS A LEADER A true leader of God’s people doesn’t wait for a formal appointment to begin serving. Rather, we come to recognize leaders among us as those who in the regular course of life have already been serving the congregation “without the credentials,” so to speak. We’re not talking about an autocrat, one who arrogates unto himself a position, title or authority that doesn’t belong to him — a usurper, if you please. Remember, the primary function of…
SOUND WORDS, AUG. 4TH, 2024
I HAVE NOT YET BEGUN TO FIGHT 2 JACK DEMPSEY & LUIS FIRPO I’ve always had a hard time understanding art. Maybe it’s because my brain is tuned to music as my form of artistic expression. In an effort to become more well-rounded, and to be a cheap date to art museums, I’ve recently begun to study the traditional form of art. It is for this reason that I rediscovered the George Bellows painting, Dempsey and Firpo. The painting depicts one boxer…