December 7, 2018 Dear Peachtree Road Family, I hope you are doing well. At the close of this note I have some important information about parking for upcoming special evening services. However, I want to begin this week by letting you know about three opportunities coming up this Sunday: “The Wonder of Christmas” – we
November 30, 2018 Dear Peachtree Road Family, I hope this note finds you doing well. I can’t wait for Sunday as we begin the season of advent – a time of preparation for the coming of Christ at Christmas. If you’re like a lot of folks, every year you say you’re going to cut back,
November 22, 2018 Dear Peachtree Road Family, Happy Thanksgiving! I am writing you on this Thursday morning to wish you a wonderful holiday and express my gratitude for your faithful support of the ministry of Peachtree Road. As was clearly evident last Sunday, we are abundantly blessed! We were blessed by the work of the
November 16, 2018 Dear Peachtree Road Family, I hope you are doing well. I really am looking forward to worship as we celebrate Harvest Sunday here at Peachtree Road. As our hymn for the day reminds us, “We gather together to ask the Lord’s blessings…” Sociologists have discovered a direct correlation between joy and thanksgiving,
November 9, 2018 Dear Peachtree Road Family, I hope this note finds you doing well. This has been a busy week. On Sunday evening the choir led our congregation in a beautiful Evensong Service to commemorate All Saints Sunday here at Peachtree Road. On Tuesday, voters turned out in large numbers across our nation for
November 2, 2018 Dear Peachtree Road Family, I hope this note finds you well. I really am looking forward to Sunday as we begin a new series of messages with the theme “We Are Thankful…” Earlier this year, Jennifer Wallace wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal in which she asserted that one of
October 26, 2018 Dear Peachtree Road Family, I want to begin today’s note by letting you know how proud I am of our church. Earlier this week, Peachtree Road hosted the Leading Edge conference to which the pastors of the 100 largest churches in United Methodism were invited. These pastors spent the better part of
October 5, 2018 Dear Peachtree Road Family, I hope this note finds you well. This week we will continue with our fall series entitled “Fruitful.” Last Sunday in my message, I reflected upon a childhood memory of walking with my granddaddy Arrington through his vegetable garden. I remember him pointing toward the rows that would
September 28, 2018 Dear Peachtree Road Family, I hope this note finds you well. I also hope you are getting as much out of our fall series entitled “Fruitful” as I am. Each week we are considering the fruit of the Spirit as outlined by the Apostle Paul in Galatians 5: “But the fruit of
September 21, 2018 Dear Peachtree Road Family, I hope this note finds you well. Last Sunday was a wonderful day at Peachtree Road as we worshiped together in great number and spirit. Some of the highlights included: Presenting Bibles to our third graders and then hearing Porter Brunson, one of our third graders, read the
September 14, 2018 Dear Peachtree Road Family, I hope this note finds you doing well. It was good to see so many of you back in church last Sunday as we kicked-off the fall season here at Peachtree Road. I really am looking forward to this Sunday for at least three reasons: We are continuing
September 7, 2018 Dear Peachtree Road Family, I hope you are well. I wanted to begin this week’s note with a reminder that we are in the midst of a “Year of Prayer” here at Peachtree Road. We began January with a series of messages on the “Power of Prayer.” In the months since, we
August 31, 2018 Dear Peachtree Road Family, As we head into the Labor Day weekend, I hope you are doing well. This holiday traditionally marks the end of summer and the beginning of the fall schedule at Peachtree Road. I realize some of you may be reading these words at a mountain retreat or at
August 24, 2018 Dear Peachtree Road Family, I hope you have had a good week. Today I want to share with you some really good news that was announced last Monday evening at the Administrative Board meeting. Greg Adams, chair of our church’s Board of Trustees, informed us that we are the recipient of a
August 17, 2018 Dear Peachtree Road Family, It’s that time of the year again. School has started, folks are back in town, and families are settling into a regular routine. It has been forty years since I went off to college, but I still vividly remember those first days at Stetson University – meeting new
August 10, 2018 Dear Peachtree Road Family, I hope this note finds you well. Members of the Chancel Choir returned from their residency at Westminster Abbey in London earlier this week, and we are looking forward to having them back with us in worship this Sunday. Those of us who had the opportunity to hear
August 3, 2018 Dear Peachtree Road Family, I hope this note finds you well. As I write to you this week, I am preparing to board a flight back to the United States at the conclusion of our Wesley Heritage Tour of England. I know I speak for the entire group of pilgrims from Peachtree
July 27, 2018 Dear Peachtree Road Family, I hope this note finds you well. Wendie and I are traveling this week with a group of Peachtree Road members participating in a Wesley Heritage Tour in England. We safely arrived early Wednesday morning and already have toured the town of York, where John and Charles Wesley
July 20, 2018 Dear Peachtree Road Family, I hope you have had a good week. Sunday promises to be another good day in worship here at Peachtree Road as we continue our “Summer in the City” services. Our focus this month is upon lessons from Jesus’ “Sermon on the Mount.” Of course, you and I
July 13, 2018 Dear Peachtree Road Family, I hope you have had a good week. Wendie and I have returned from our trip last week to the Pacific Northwest where we spent time whale watching and touring towns along the coasts of Washington and Oregon. That is a beautiful part of the country, and we
