An Open Letter to a Parting Pastor

by | May 4, 2011 | A Word from the Pastor

Dear Pastor Jamie, As you well know, today is your last full Sunday with us here at Forest Baptist Church (as our Minister to Students). Next week you will begin feeding and leading your new congregation (Greenville Baptist Church), as you preach for them and begin...

How to Listen to a Sermon Well

by | May 8, 2010 | A Word from the Pastor

Let me ask you a question, “In your lifetime, how many sermons have you heard?” Has it been one hundred? Five hundred? How about one-thousand? If you had to add it up, how many would it be? Now, let me ask you another question, “How many of these...

My First Published Work

by | Feb 16, 2010 | A Word from the Pastor

Call it a “bucket list” if you will. But, like most people, I have always had a few goals that I want to achieve before I die. It’s nothing extravagant, but here it is. Tyler’s Lifelong Goals 1. Get married. (“Check.”) 2. Have...