Reflections on our mother, Hazel Shores
April 2, 2010
Steve Shores
One of my lasting memories of childhood involves my mother’s father, Fred Dale. Our family would go to Longview to visit Papa, as we called him; and somehow, on some of these visits, I’d find myself facing my grandfather while he handed me a cake on a [...]

Love begins when life begins inside the mother.
Psalm 39:4-5
December 6, 2009
Baby Eddie
My first visit to Babyland at Catawba Memorial Park was about six years ago – October 16, 2003.  My wife Linda and I had been youth pastors in Reidsville, North Carolina in the mid-1970s, and one of our former youth group members had called [...]

If you knew Harriet Bean, it will not surprise you to know she had some specific wishes for this service today.  She knew which pastors she wanted to lead the service.  She chose the music she wanted us to sing.  She wanted the order of worship and liturgy to reflect both the Episcopal Church in [...]

“I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.”
John 10:10
 
It seems to me helpful to begin today with a reminder of why we are here.  About ten days ago, a tragic accident took the life of a beloved son, brother, uncle, and friend.  The end of Keith’s life came way [...]

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
2 Timothy 4:6-8
October 12, 2009
 
Chuck’s daughter, Wendy, was the one who suggested the 2 Timothy 4 passage for today’s service.  “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.”  Wendy recently read this [...]