Bruce Green Articles

A mailbox, a note and a good neighbor

BY BRUCE GREEN OPINION — Our mailbox leads a rather solitary existence. It interacts with our mail carrier once a day, sees either Janice or me the same amount — and that’s it — except for the many vehicles that drive by. Only the vehicles don’t always drive by. One...

Broken but blessed

OPINION — I worked as a lifeguard for a couple of summers when I was growing up. I got the job even though at the time, I hadn’t taken the course you needed for life-guard certification. The swimming pool where I was hired was in a pinch and needed someone right away,...

Happily ever laughter

OPINION — Abraham was 75 years old when he left Haran for Canaan (Genesis 12:4). God told him He would give Canaan “to your offspring” (v. 7), so he knew he would have descendants. But it didn’t happen over the next few years so when God spoke to him through a vision...

Tents, altars and sacred space

OPINION — Even though the land of Canaan would be given to his descendants, when Abraham sojourned there he and Sarah didn’t live in the best house of a high-end neighborhood. They lived in tents—as their son Isaac would and after him, his son Jacob. They were able to...
Embracing The Ordinary

Embracing The Ordinary

By BRUCE GREEN Teaching Minister at 10th Street Church of Christin Opelika I’d like to say a few words in defense of the ordinary. It seems that in...

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Embracing The Ordinary

Wearing God Down

By BRUCE GREEN Teaching Minister at 10th Street Church of Christin Opelika There’s a popular belief that if disciples pray hard enough about...

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Embracing The Ordinary

Touchable

By BRUCE GREENTeaching Minister at 10th Street Church of Christin Opelika We’ve learned a lot about touch and isolation in the last two years,...

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Embracing The Ordinary

We Are Glad 

By BRUCE GREEN Teaching Minister at 10th Street Church of Christin Opelika It’s been a long time, but I can still remember an occasion when our son,...

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