I’m not exactly sure how we got into being hobby breeders of collies (OK, I sort of know, but it’s a really long story). We were just trying to do what the apostle Paul did as a church planter. You know, he was a tent maker, so he made tents to keep the resources flowing
Year: 2007
Vacation at Smith Mountain Lake… Combs Style!
Ever feel like you need to take a break after you get back from vacation? That’s pretty much true for any Combs family vacation. We seem to have a real problem dialing it down a notch. But I guess that’s just our nature. We love adventure, excitement and risk. So, if we take a vacation
Hey! I’ve been published.
Check it out! An article I submitted to Church Business Magazine was published in their June 2007 edition. They recently asked me to serve on their advisory board because of my background in church work as well as business. They were asking for ideas on future articles from the board, so I submitted a couple.
On Becoming a Father
“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. For just as the sufferings of Christ flow
On Being Human
Psalm 8:4 (NIV) What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? This past week my cell phone kept ringing with the caller ID “Name Unknown 777-777-7777.” I didn’t answer it the first few times. All of those sevens were kind of disconcerting. At first I
Why God Wants Our Worship
For the truth about God is known to them instinctively. God has put this knowledge in their hearts. From the time the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky and all that God made. They can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. … Yes, they knew God, but
Dried Up and Empty?
Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. Then the word of the Lord came to him: “Go at once to Zarephath of Sidon and stay there. I have commanded a widow in that place to supply you with food.” (1 Kings 17:7-9 NIV) Ever feel like
We Have A Great Church!
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips. (Proverbs 27:2 KJV) “Sounds like you have a great church!” My new friend Larry said, as we sat in a booth at a local Mexican restaurant getting acquainted. Larry is a missionary and the father of Susanna, one
The Desynchronization Effect
The apostles and the brothers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him and said, “You went into the house of uncircumcised men and ate with them.” Acts 11:1-3 (NIV) This year daylight savings time began a couple