by Guy Sayles | Jan 23, 2013 |
Unless you’re a painter, roofer, or fire-fighter, you’re probably not on a ladder very often. From time to time, you use a step stool to reach the top shelf of a tall cabinet or a step-ladder to change a light bulb. A couple of times of year, you get out the...
by Guy Sayles | Jan 19, 2013 |
At First Baptist Church of Asheville, we’ve been taking a close and hopeful look at the challenges and opportunities we face. That crucial work continues, and I’ve suggested that, as we do it, we need to keep in mind some pervasive trends which characterize our...
by Guy Sayles | Jan 6, 2013 |
My father believed the old proverb “Idle hands are the devil’s workshop.” He didn’t like to see me sitting still, unless it was at the dinner table or in church. Otherwise, he wanted me to be doing something constructive. If he didn’t think I was...
by Guy Sayles | Dec 24, 2012 |
In his compelling and controversial novel, The Testament of Mary, Colm Toibin, imagines how Mary felt while carrying Jesus in her womb: I know that my own happiness in those first months, when I was with child, felt strange and special, that I lived in a...
by Guy Sayles | Dec 18, 2012 |
Like many other preachers, my sermon yesterday drew, in part, on the terrible story of Herod’s “slaughter of the innocents,” as I attempted to speak about the unspeakable shootings in Newtown, CT. A young family was decorating their home for...
by Guy Sayles | Dec 5, 2012 |
Writer Sue Monk Kidd grew up among Baptists in the south and, like most of the rest of us who did, she learned to pay very little attention to Mary, the mother of Jesus. Kidd says that she was “virtually unaware of Mary, except at Christmas, when she turned up...
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