Ched Todd

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I’d like to introduce you to a good friend of mine named Chet Todd. His parents and my parents pastored in the Church of the Nazarene on the Kentucky District during our early years. He’s got one of the best senses of humor and consistently makes me laugh out loud with his jokes and wit. He’s now a lead pastor at Wellspring Church of the Nazarene in Evansville, IN. I’ve invited him to join in as a regular author and contributor to the site as his insights are sound and frequently challenging to me and call me to a higher maturity and discipline in my own faith.Read More →

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Recently shared online so I thought I’d share it with you all and hopefully ignite some discussion in the comments. My wife and I have been talking about cancelling Netflix because of all the issues with one of their recent movies. We are doing our homework to be well informed about our decision, but I ran across this very timely story which seems to put it in a very sobering perspective! Some years ago, when I was a pastor, I walked into my church office after a Sunday morning service to find a little brown bag on my desk containing three chocolate brownies. Some thoughtfulRead More →

Empty Church Pews

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  Is your scheduled church service being impacted by recommendations and decisions to not meet under the efforts of social distancing? This corona virus or Covid-19 as it’s also known is wreaking havoc on what we consider normal life in America. Churches are being encouraged to close their doors and live stream their services to their congregations. We all know there are plenty of small, country churches where this just isn’t going to work. As a friend of mine on Facebook suggested, as entertaining as it would be to see Ethel sitting in her pew and trying to live stream the service and us gettingRead More →

Graduates

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Spring is in the air and that means bbq grilling, outside parties and field day at school. By the way, field day is code for “there’s nothing left to do in the classroom so let’s take them outside so we don’t strangle them”. It’s an excuse to have a party outside!  Another party I enjoy is graduation.  It’s not so much the formality of the commencement (although that’s pretty neat), but it’s the end. I like seeing the graduates walk across the stage, receive their diplomas and then see their supporters lose their minds rejoicing. As each person walks and greets the school principal orRead More →

Tuesday's Good Word

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It is with great excitement that I announce a new edition to the MissionNotes site. I have spoken with Reverend Matt Hastings and asked if he would be interested in either writing regularly for the site as I’ve been a huge fan of his weekly devotional emails he calls “Tuesday’s Good Word”. Due to his schedule and commitments as a husband, father, pastor and now professor, he regretfully let me know he didn’t believe he would have the time to write regularly, but let me know he would be pleased and honored to let me republish his weekly emails here on our site to shareRead More →