“HOME AGAIN, HOME AGAIN, DANCIN’ A JIG”

Monday, March 20, 2006

Well, we went back to Lincoln Heights Christian Church yesterday.

But I will have to admit, Thomas Wolfe was right ----“You can’t go home again.”

You only think you can.

Nothing is ever really the same.

I woke up this morning with mixed emotions about the visit. We were well received. We still feel loved and appreciated. We still love the church with all of our hearts. It was a great joy to be there. It will be one of the highlights of this year for both Charlotte and me. But it was different!

It was a cold, rainy morning, which is very different for Phoenix. Many were away because of children being out of school for spring break. The attendance was way down and has been for months. It wasn’t the “home” we were used to.

God is leading us on to a new home and a new ministry. We are excited about that but we are also impatient. We want to know what God has planned. We want to get on with it.

I have written a fourteen chapter book (waiting for a publisher). I have a second book and several magazine articles in the planning stage. I still prepare new sermons although I have no pulpit from which to preach them. We go to an exciting church that preaches the Word of God with love and conviction. We are waiting for God to lead.

We pray God’s greatest blessings for our “old home church.” May He lead them on to do great things for His Kingdom?