Building Community on Ben Baughman

We Went Church Shopping Yesterday

Mon, 09 Mar 2015 13:35:20 +0000

Family was here. They like to attend church. So we went online to shop for a church. Just a one-day deal.

We’d heard of a church that some friends of the family attended, so we tried to remember the name of it. We thought we’d found it.

Service at 10:30. Perfect. Big church. Good music. Good preacher. In and out in an hour! Quick fix and we’ll be on our way.

Still Burning!

Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:58:35 +0000

I wrote the following four years ago while still pastoring. I was still a year away from hearing “pancreatic cancer” pronounced over the love of my life. Retirement wasn’t even in my vocabulary. I thought I could possibly take a wonderful group of people I loved into an untracked era. It was not to be.

Four years later, no congregation, no weekly pulpit, and only a few who may or may not read it, it still burns inside. This was written for my eyes only, so it may not flow like my other writing, but I would sure like to know if this or anything like it resonates with you.

New Training for New Terrain

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:00:49 +0000

Our children are very different from my wife and I and dissimilar from each other as well. This was apparent from the day each of them was born. It was clear that even though there were familial similarities, they each had distinctive design. It was never our goal to somehow end up with clones of ourselves. We loved each one’s uniqueness and spent our hopes and time on encouraging the strengths of each design.