WORDS FROM W.W. February 22, 2012 Today is the 24th birthday of Elizabeth Anne-Faletti Wolfe. She was born in the evening twenty four years ago soon after Carol and I finished our second game of Scrabble in the Sparrow Hospital birthing room in Lansing, Michigan. It’s a weird feeling to know that your [...]
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When Your Baby is 24
February 22, 2012Crazy With the Mennonites
February 15, 2012WORDS FROM W.W. February 15, 2012 Last Sunday was our neighborhood pastors pulpit exchange Sunday. Five churches in our neighborhood exchange pastors. You can call it “Pastor Swap” if you want to! We’ve done it for six years on a Sunday in either January or February. We’ve threatened to do it more often! “If you [...]
Ten Commandments for Basketball Parents
February 9, 2012WORDS FROM W.W. February 9, 2012 In our Buddy Basketball program for kids we stress the need for kids to have a positive and fun recreational experience. A vast majority of kids long for that. There are a number of other things in their lives that aren’t positive and aren’t fun. It’s amazing to [...]
Are We Called To Protect our Community?
January 31, 2012WORDS FROM W.W. January 31, 2012 We often think of our law enforcement officers as “protecting our community?” But what about churches? Do churches, and Christians, have a responsibility to protect our community? The answer, in case you’re searching, is yes! Not that we will start carrying firearms around, but rather we’re called as communities [...]
Granddaughter Gazing
January 24, 2012WORDS FROM W.W. January 24, 2012 Someone once said that “Grandkids are God’s reward for not killing your own children when they were teenagers.” It’s an extreme statement that has a hint of truth in it. Yesterday I was asked by my oldest daughter and son-in-law to watch my granddaughter Reagan (good presidential name) for [...]
The Method or The Essence”
January 20, 2012WORDS FROM W.W. January 19, 2012 In looking at the past one hundred years or so of the church there are several emphases, or movements, that have been trumpeted, and “seminared.” I remember in the 70′s and early 80′s that there would be a “Sunday School Convention” held each year in the Detroit area that [...]
Rethinking Membership
January 17, 2012WORDS FROM W.W. January 17, 2012 The past year in college football has been about as predictable as the European financial community. The only sure thing is that someone from the SEC will be in the BCS Championship game. Other than that… For instance, TCU announced that it was leaving the Mountain West Conference to [...]
Keeping The Columns
January 12, 2012WORDS FROM W.W. January 11, 2012 When I was back in Ohio recently I went to a basketball game at my old high school. It’s the first time I had stepped foot inside my alma mater since 1975. But I can’t really say it was going back to my old high school…because my old high [...]
Sectioning Off the Church
January 5, 2012WORDS FROM W.W. January 5, 2012 I was recently traveling in another state and I drove by a church that introduced itself with a list. The list read something like this: -Independent -Fundamental -Traditional -King James Version -Soul-winning The list was so long I barely had time to read it all as I passed by. [...]
No Shoes In the Mall
December 24, 2011WORDS FROM W.W. December 24, 2011 It was a strange scene, hundreds of people standing outside the mall at a quarter to twelve midnight. Perhaps a celebrity was showing up, or the line to see Santa was so long that people were still waiting hours after the mall had closed. But a closer look indicated [...]
