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 […]
And we’re off!
And we’re off! The first Saturday Night at Chapel Hill is in the can. And, wow, what a start! More than 300 folks packed into (and oozed out of) the Memorial Chapel for our inaugural stab at weekend evening worship. Thanks to all who came just to show your support. I suspect that this Saturday, […]
Saturday nights…here we go!
This Saturday at 6:30pm we launch our new worship service in the Memorial Chapel. We are obviously excited about this new venture, but more importantly, you seem to be excited about it, too. I can’t tell you the number of people who have stopped me and said, “We are in for Saturday! We’ve been waiting for something […]
Head to Head with the Seahawks!
Every September, the Sunday after Labor Day, we celebrate Back Home Sunday. The choir is back, Sunday School fires up, I’m in the pulpit launching a new sermon series and our Ministry Fair fills the Gathering Place, putting on display all of the programs and offerings for this coming year. It is a very exciting […]
So… what IS ‚ÄúThe Story?‚Äù
Tomorrow, we kick off a year-long journey through The Story. It is the most integrated preaching/teaching ministry we have ever undertaken at Chapel Hill. Every Sunday School class, youth group, LifeGroup, Men’s and Women’s study…all of them will follow along as week by week, we read and work our way through The Story. But a […]
Why We Baptize Adults AND Babies
This Sunday at 3:00 we will gather at the Eddon Boat Park at the corner of Stinson and Harborview for our annual Harbor baptism ceremony. I hope you will come. It is a wonderful public testimony to our faith and every year, scores of people on foot, in car and in boats, meander by and […]
How About Church on Saturday?
On September 14, 2003, we launched a brand new Chapel Hill worship service called, oh so cleverly, “11:27.” Guess what time we met? The quirky start time was just one way of saying, “We believe God is calling us to do a new thing; to offer a new kind of worship service that will speak […]