Cable Community Church

Recently on a popular web-based social network, I was called “the chairman of the board for the campaign for Thanksgiving.”  I suppose that honor fits.  I have made a big deal in Sunday School and Church about Christmas not coming until after Thanksgiving, and that “chairman” comment came in the middle of a discussion about [...]

So we are on the cusp of yet another Thanksgiving Holiday. There are many who will encourage you to give thanks, and so you should. In this space this month, I am going to approach the topic from another perspective. The thought springs from something that I witnessed recently at a fast [...]

I could have seen it coming. I mean, it’s happened before. Truth is, this is quite regular. I SHOULD have seen it coming!
Each year, with the change of seasons, my sinuses “clean house.” Imagine an automobile oil change, only this happens in one’s body and involves a stuffy head, sore [...]

September is an “in between” month.  It rests comfortably between the seasons of summer and fall.  This month usually witnesses the temperatures dropping from the searing highs of August to the moderate cool that is October.  September is a month of transition.

It is this time of year when we send our little children off [...]

I was reading a recent report on church growth. This particular report, by Scott Thumma of Hartford Institute for Religion Research and Warren Bird of Leadership Network, examines the previously understudied phenomenon called “Megachurches.” Their definition of megachurch is “a very large Protestant church of 2,000 or more weekly attenders.” I can [...]