On St. Andrew’s Sunday, while you all were celebrating the memories of so many loved ones, we were welcoming a new loved one into the world. Michael Reed Hackman was born on Sunday, October 25 at 2:34pm. We could not be enjoying our first few days as parents more. You all know and share with […]
Joyous News
Join us in praising God for his great mercy: Michael Reed Hackman, born Sunday, October 25 at 2:34 p.m., weighing 9.36 pounds. Baby, mommy and daddy are all doing great! Hallelujah! Pastor Mark […]
Sad Family News
Early Thursday morning I received a call telling me that Malinda Thomas, wife of our dear guitarist Dave Thomas and mother to Jordan and Dylan, had died suddenly in the night. As I write this, we await news about the cause and, of course, are rallying around this beloved family as only the Body of […]
90 Day Challenge Resources
There are two 90-Day Challenges. Click on the links below for the corresponding journals. Reading one chapter a day from the Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John). 90 Day Journal (Gospels) Reading one chapter per week from the book of Acts 90 Day Journal (Acts) […]
Daddy, help!
Right now, every time I am cooking dinner, or emptying the dishwasher, or taking out the trash, my daughter Evelyn incessantly cries out to me, “Daddy, help! Daddy, help! Daddy, help!” And she won’t stop until I give her a job to do. Sometimes there are helpful things for her to do, like take spaghetti out of […]
Baby Hackman IS not HERE yet
Yes, I am still here. The conversations in the hallway have definitely shifted from, “When is the due date?” (Sunday, October 11, BTW) to “You’re still here?” That’s a funny thing about pregnancy, I’m learning. We are full of expectation and wait and hope and then all of a sudden a trigger switches, maybe a […]
Damascus, then and now
We have all watched with interest and trepidation the awful things happening in Syria right now. Under Assad’s brutal regime, 12 million Syrians…half of their population…have fled the country. It would be the equivalent of everyone west of Ohio and north of Texas fleeing their homes. And if that weren’t awful enough, now the Russians […]