May 7, 2025 | Grace Notes, Homepage Feature, News, Reported in the E-Vision
by Steven Norris This week, I sat in the old fellowship hall of a Baptist Church on St. Simon’s Island, strumming my four-stringed ukulele and singing along with about 75 others gathered there: “Take it easy, take it easy / Don’t let the sound of your own...
Apr 30, 2025 | Grace Notes, Homepage Feature, News, Reported in the E-Vision
By Steven Norris A Pastor once told a story about growing up in a small town. When he was a boy, his mother gave him an assignment: “Go down to the florist and pick up some flowers for the dinner table.” The young boy did what he was told, but he felt quite...
Apr 23, 2025 | Grace Notes, Homepage Feature, News, Reported in the E-Vision
By Steven Norris Sometimes, the phrase “I love you” can be spelled S-U-N-D-R-O-P. I moved to Georgia in 2018 from North Carolina to take a position at my current church. During my sixteen years in North Carolina, I had come to love the taste of a very particular...
Apr 18, 2025 | Grace Notes, Homepage Feature, Reported in the E-Vision
by Steven Norris It was dark when Mary approached the tomb that morning. Dark because it was just before sunrise. Dark because she was consumed by sadness. Dark because her dreams had been crushed and she had buried someone she dearly loved. One has to...
Apr 9, 2025 | Grace Notes, Homepage Feature, Reported in the E-Vision
In my house growing up, we knew that it was a special occasion when the fine china came down out of the cabinet. Those gold-rimmed plates had been a wedding gift to my parents and the silver had been handed down in my maternal grandmother’s family. These...
Apr 2, 2025 | Grace Notes, Homepage Feature, Reported in the E-Vision
By Steven Norris “Could you possibly move any slower!?” I sat in my driveway, staring at the door, excruciatingly watching as my chances of being on time diminished by the second. Such is life for the parents of teenage boys. I am not a very patient person —...
