Monday Over Coffee: "Order"
Posted by Greg Funderburk in Monday Over Coffee
Grace’s own neighborhood was spared, but those who lived not far from her had lost almost everything in the recent fires. She wanted to help and had heard that recovery efforts would be staged from the convention center in the middle of town. When she arrived though, the place was overwhelmed, not only with folks in need but with scores of well-meaning volunteers too. Chaos reigned outside the…
Monday Over Coffee: "Arresting Beauty"
Posted by Greg Funderburk in Monday Over Coffee
A twenty foot high, forty foot wide pile of bricks and wooden framing set in front of the two men as they conversed. The crew was in the process of demolishing an old apartment complex with still much to do. About half the structure remained in place to the west.
Monday Over Coffee: "Angels"
Posted by Greg Funderburk in Monday Over Coffee
As they slow down, Zoe’s father lets go of her hand, and Zoe begins to have second thoughts about seeing her grandmother in this place called Intensive Care. Her legs are suddenly feeling wavy. Her father and mother pause at the door sensing her hesitation, but Zoe pushes the thoughts down and nods to her parents. Zoe is convinced her picture will help with the whole situation.
Just Start Somewhere
Posted by Gordan and Gail Musgrove in Discipleship
That’s often great advice when tackling a project or a task—but when it comes to marriage, well, it’s not quite that simple.
Monday Over Coffee : "Prediction Machine"
Posted by Greg Funderburk in Monday Over Coffee
Jane had jury duty again. It was the third time in three years. The first time she was chosen. It had been a fender-bender case taking her away from her job for a week. Last year, she hadn’t been picked. In fact, the case had settled before the process even began.
Monday Over Coffee: "Memory"
Posted by Greg Funderburk in Monday Over Coffee
While formerly it was believed memories like this one now forming in Gil’s mind arose in the hippocampus and were then transferred to the neocortex for longer term storage, more recently it’s been discovered that such memories are formed in the hippocampus and the neocortex simultaneously. The more specific details of this emerging memory will always remain in Gil’s hippocampus, but at the same…
Monday Over Coffee: "Enough"
Posted by Greg Funderburk in Monday Over Coffee
When Allie was a little girl, the only thing she loved more than eating the just-out-of-the-oven chocolate chip cookies her mother made were the times her mother would let her help make them.
Monday Over Coffee: "Olympus BC"
Posted by Greg Funderburk in Monday Over Coffee
Long ago, in ancient Greece in the city of Prionia, there was a young man named Demetrius who, as his sixteenth birthday approached, announced it was his intention to climb Mount Olympus, the mountain where it was said the gods resided.
Amen
Posted by Steve Wells in Pastor
‘Amen’ is a word that can mean many different things--a robust expression of concurrence and unity conveying the message, “I agree! So be it!” or a beautiful and heartfelt response to a vibrant blessing bestowed on God’s people. Amen!
Monday Over Coffee: "Engineer"
Posted by Greg Funderburk in Monday Over Coffee
Hal Morgan, an engineer by trade, supervised all preventative maintenance and safety training at the paper plant where he’d been employed now for 40 years. The plant ran 24/7, 365 days of the year with Hal scheduling all required maintenance throughout each unit. As for safety, Hal had developed an extensive curriculum on which his weekly safety meetings were based. Like clockwork, on the first…
South Main Campus Master Plan
Posted by SMBC in All Articles
South Main Baptist Church’s history is full of moments where our congregation tackled change only to emerge stronger, more capable, and more diverse. One of these moments is directly in front of us as your Campus Master Plan Task Force, along with architects and landscape architects, civil engineers and planners, and real estate experts, collaborated on a comprehensive proposal to address how our…
Monday Over Coffee: "Waiting"
Posted by Greg Funderburk in Monday Over Coffee
The carpet in the large waiting area at the hospital is dark blue with some lighter blue mixed in, which gives the effect that it’s an ocean that’s deeper in some parts and shallower in others. People are clustered into groups waiting—families, friends, but also strangers connected only on account of the schedules of their loved ones’ surgeons. Some who are here occupy the deep end of the ocean.…
Monday Over Coffee: "Luck"
Posted by Greg Funderburk in Monday Over Coffee
Lockhart was a spider: an industrious one from a long line of industrious spiders who was attending a spider day camp his parents had sent him to in order to learn how to spin a useful web. The coaches at the camp started each summer with the basics—a single thread across two points in a controlled environment, a dark closet in an old vacant apartment in which the camp was held each year.…
Monday Over Coffee: "Soul"
Posted by Greg Funderburk in Monday Over Coffee
There were complications with the surgery, and it wasn’t until late in the afternoon that the exhausted surgeon came into the waiting room to report to Mr. Robinson’s two adult sons about the ordeal in the operating room.
Monday Over Coffee: "Muse"
Posted by Greg Funderburk in Monday Over Coffee
Beth woke up in the thrall of a harrowing nightmare. The narrative her subconscious had so villainously devised involved a meeting with clients on the deadline of a project, which Beth had completely forgotten about. Relieved it wasn’t real, she sat up in bed and breathed deeply.
Monday Over Coffee: "The Present Moment"
Posted by Greg Funderburk in All Articles
Zeke’s favorite animals were the giraffes (#3), then the butterflies (#2,) and in first place, best of all, there were the Galápagos tortoises (#1). Endlessly fascinated by how the giant tortoises moved in slow motion yet somehow covered so much ground effectively, especially when food was involved or when they got angry with one another, Zeke gathered all the information he could about the…
Monday Over Coffee: "Shepherd"
Posted by Greg Funderburk in Monday Over Coffee
On Sunday mornings at the end of her Sunday School lessons, Mrs. Shepherd would tell all her kids they were free to ask any questions they wanted about the Bible story she’d just taught them. “Questions?” Mrs. Shepherd would ask in a kind and encouraging manner. “Any questions at all?”
Monday Over Coffee: " Laughter"
Posted by Greg Funderburk in Monday Over Coffee
When Jack and his dad took Jack’s grandmother to the emergency room, it was so crowded they had to wait in the hallway, she on a stretcher, for a total of seven whole hours. And because even a few hours is a long time for an elderly woman with moderate dementia on a stretcher in a hallway awaiting test results, Jack’s dad was getting pretty frustrated. She was his mother after all.
Monday Over Coffee: "Time Moves"
Posted by Greg Funderburk in Monday Over Coffee
Peter had resolved to find time for a meaningful “goodbye” dinner and conversation with his daughter, Katherine, before they flew west to begin her freshman year in college, but there’d been so much going on at the end of the summer—the packing, the planning, Peter’s work, Katherine’s own busy schedule—that it never materialized. And now with his wife back home with their younger son for his own…
Monday Over Coffee: "Dog"
Posted by Greg Funderburk in Monday Over Coffee
The dog showed up in the alley behind Maddie’s office on a stormy day in mid-September, not quite a puppy but lost and scared. He had managed to tuck himself into a little dry patch under a ledge between a rain gutter and a dumpster when Maddie heard his whimpering from inside her office. After a number of approaches, Maddie finally managed to coax the dog out, then inside where she regarded the…
