October 2019… the point of no return. Let’s talk about the Fall Fest for a minute. This was something Tree Town Baptist had been doing…
35. Twenty Nineteen (Part 13)
I started to feel like God was using something I could see to bring my attention to things I couldn’t.
34. Twenty Nineteen (Part 12)
Call me cynical. I don’t care. After everything that had happened up until this point, I was struggling to believe him.
33. The Fourth Wall (Stand Alone)
If you think I’m lying… you’re wrong… but no one is making you read it.
32. Hush Money (2019 Part 11)
Did the church by-laws allow for this kind of thing? And if they did, why was it all so “top secret”?
31. Twenty Nineteen (Part 10)
And something inside me clicked. This was the new normal. This was the pace we would always be expected to work. It didn’t matter if I was “part-time.” Ministry was full-time.
30. Twenty Nineteen (Part 9)
The pastor was discouraged because the younger people weren’t attending business meetings. The older members of the congregation gave the majority of the money, and they were also the ones who participated in the business meetings.
29. Twenty Nineteen (Part 8)
I wanted the church as a whole to hit its knees and realize that all the money, all the politics, all the hate, and all the power were simply evil and so far away from what the church was supposed to be.
28. Twenty Nineteen (Part 7)
We had all just come out of a crazy busy year. We had not only maintained our schedules, but because we didn’t have a music minister, we had all taken on extra responsibility… every single one of us.
27. Twenty Nineteen (Part 6)
“I think I want to quit my job”… that’s the only thing going through my head the last two days.