This summer, I signed up to be part of a Sunday School team at Calvary Tabernacle. I’ve played a variety of ministerial roles in my lifetime, even leading a Sunday School class for teens, but this has been my first experience teaching adolescents. Each Sunday School team consists of a leader and two teaching assistants. [...]
United Pentecostal Church Evangelist T.L. Smith, of Kinder, Louisiana, preached a revival at Calvary Tabernacle in Quincy, Illinois, where he accurately prophesied the birth of Jonathan and Tollie Mohr’s baby boy.
2 Kings 7:3-4 (King James Version) 3 And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die? 4 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: [...]
Calvary Tabernacle in Quincy had a great Easter Sunday morning celebration this year. We had 125 (?) present in our morning worship service, including 40 (?) kids in Children’s Church. (Someone correct me if I have my figures wrong.) Our pastor, Randy Pate, preached about being “Afar Off” (Luke 22:54), and we had a great [...]
Easter week is always crazy for my family; that’s when the Illinois District hosts their annual Youth Convention. This past Wednesday, young people from all over the state gathered in Springfield for three days of music, worship and preaching. Lives were changed and young people went home fired up to do the work of God. [...]
It’s been a long day, but a rewarding one. This morning (Sunday, March 29) I preached at New Beginnings Apostolic Church in Springfield, IL. Pastor Greg Tucker was out of town, taking a well-deserved weekend sabbatical with his family. NBA is a great church, and Tollie, Nolan and I had a great time ministering to [...]
The following is the abbreviated version of a sermon I recently preached at my home church, Calvary Tabernacle of Quincy. I offer this not because it’s the world’s greatest sermon, nor because I think I am the world’s greatest preacher. Instead, I post it as an expression of my thoughts, which is, after all, what [...]
