Jim Hester and the nominating committee have been working very hard over the past month. I want to thank everybody who submitted nominations this year. We have had many excellent candidates to discuss and consider. The guiding questions the committee has been asking are: Are they in worship regularly? Are they involved in a small group or Sunday school class? Do they exhibit leadership ability? Do they support the church with time, talent, and treasure? Leadership in a church like Woodmont is essential. We count on our leaders to take their role seriously and be......

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A few years ago, I had an insightful conversation with a well-known therapist in Nashville who has been in private practice for decades and has helped many families through infidelity, mistrust, suicide, alcoholism, addiction, and the unwanted challenge of managing children who decide not to grow up. This counselor has certainly seen it all over the years. We were discussing the older brother in the Parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15) and how he became filled with jealousy and anger, bitterness and resentment when his younger brother returned home and his......

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Valentine’s Day is Friday, so we see lots of messages around love this week. In his book Practicing the Way, John Mark Comer says this: “Love is the acid test of spiritual formation. The single most important question is, ‘Are we becoming more loving?’ Not are we becoming more biblically educated. Or practicing more spiritual disciplines? Or more involved in church? Those are all good things, but not the most important thing.” Ultimately, the goal in life is to become more loving. Comer says, “Would the people who know you best say you are becoming more loving, joyful, and......

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Hunter Mobley will be back to speak in the Woodmont chapel at 6:15 p.m. this Wednesday night, Feb. 5, on “The Enneagram, Love, and Relationships.” Consider this an early Valentine’s event with a dinner before in Drowota Hall at 5:30 p.m. It’s been said before that we are mysteries unto ourselves. Many people lack self-awareness in our culture. The Apostle Paul writes to the Romans: “I do not understand my own actions, for I do not do what I want but I do the very thing that I hate.” In other words,......

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