I’ve made my fair share of mistakes. Most were made because I wasn’t patient enough to wait.
There are times I rushed to buy something only to have it go on sale a week later.
There is a story in the Bible that gives a great example of mistakes caused by not waiting on the Lord. Continue reading
Author: pastortimswanson
Missed the Rapture!
When I first moved to East Texas and got into church. One of the things I became interested in the end times; an interest that hasn’t diminished at all.
Perhaps it because of some of the music we sang in church – songs of resurrection and rapture.
I became engrossed in those scriptures that clearly witness of a great, future event. Continue reading
Preach Jesus!
Our first meeting at CrossRoads was on a Thursday night. It was a small Bible study and I didn’t want to interfere with the Wednesday night meetings of the other churches around the area.
That was April/May 1999 but the inevitable was bound to happen. Continue reading
Ministry is never failure.
In 1998, Skipper and Alicia bought the [church] building, feeling led to make a Christian school in the area. They took time and money and renovated the front half with classrooms, restrooms, and a kitchen area.
I remember stopping by many times and visiting with them.
I felt drawn to the place! Continue reading
Yesterday, today, and tomorrow!
The building where CrossRoads is located is an old skating rink. It’s 100 feet long and 50 feet wide, more or less.
The land on which it sits was once the sight of Holy Ghost filled tent revivals. My wife, Linda, lived within shouting distance of the location and still recalls hearing the singing, preaching, and praising. Continue reading
Where is your name written?
Something I’ve noticed is how many have their name on a church roll somewhere and never attend church.
In one church the membership numbered 168 but the actual number that came to service was more like 40.
Another church had almost an identical statistic. Continue reading
Anoint my eyes that I may see!
When I left Macedonia Baptist, I had no place to go; no other church had called me to pastor. So Linda and I returned to our home church but I wasn’t the same as I was 6 years earlier. Continue reading
The Fullness of God
I have always tried to be open to the Holy Spirit. If God ask me to do it, I wanted to do it.
Truthfully, God can have you do some really strange things. Continue reading
Wait on the Lord
It was over 10 years before I pastored again. This time I didn’t push; it was a God-thing.
My grandpa had started going to the barber in Etoile, some 16 miles from our community. Continue reading
The Permissive Pastor
While I was attending JBC I was often sent to churches to preach. Many of these trips were to just fill-in and a few were in view of a call.
However I never was called to be a pastor at any of them. Continue reading
Morning Thought with Pastor Tim 