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Three Things I Need to Say. Worth the read! This is not only true for members moving from one church to another; it’s also true for pastors … sadly so. Continue reading

Just off cart path on the final hole of the golf course a sign was strategically place. It read: “YOU ARE 150 YARDS FROM THE CENTER OF THE GREEN. YOU ARE 175 YARDS FROM A $200 GLASS WINDOW. CHOOSE YOUR CLUB CAREFULLY!” I’ve seen a sign just like that on a course that I’ve played. Continue reading

Perhaps I should get started on that book I keep threatening to write – “What They Didn’t Teach Me in Seminary.” 23 years after receiving my Master’s degree, I have encountered everything from the tragic to the thrilling to the downright bizarre. It is hard for me to be shocked at anything anymore, but there Continue reading

runt: 1. smallest animal: an animal that is considerably smaller than others of the same kind, especially the smallest or weakest animal in a litter 2. offensive term: an offensive term that deliberately insults somebody’s stature as short or physical strength as lacking  Most of you are familiar with the term “runt of the litter.”  It refers Continue reading

“Teenagers who can shoot and kill a man out of summertime boredom are moral barbarians, dead souls. But who created these monsters? Where did they come from? Surely one explanation lies in the fact that the old conscience-forming and character-forming institutions — home, church, school, and a moral and healthy culture fortifying basic truths — Continue reading

Livingstone, Zambia, is named after the famed explorer and medical missionary David Livingstone. You can find the body of Dr. Livingstone buried in Westminster Abbey, but you will find his heart buried near the site where he died in Zambia. It is fitting that his heart remained in the place where he invested his heart. Continue reading

This past Sunday our church considered Jesus’ view of the masses who came to Him. We are not told what the disciples saw when they witnessed people flocking to Jesus. Perhaps they believed they had hit the big time! They may have congratulated themselves on hooking their wagon to a rising star. Whatever they saw, Continue reading

God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. (Psalm 46:1-3) Fear is common to us all. Perhaps the greatest of our fears is the fear of the unknown. We Continue reading

2 Corinthians 1:3-7 — 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 receive from God. For just as we share abundantly in Continue reading