We don’t earn our salvation from God by doing good works, but good works should be our response to God for saving us, for including us in his family.
Any tim...
Mae Louise Walls Miller was a slave in southern Mississippi. One day she met Henriette, a storyteller about slavery, and Mae regaled her with her own story—a st...
Living in an achievement-oriented society I suppose it's inevitable that we would end up in an achievement-oriented church culture. We want (demand) success in ...
But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed...
My congregation loves to make fun of how little I know about sports.
“Hey Pastor, it’s baseball season now! How many touchdowns do you think your team will ma...
Hey, it's that Valentine's time of year again!
Regardless of who St. Valentine actually was (yes, he was a real person in human history), the day has become ...
Confession time. I don't give anything up for Lent. I think, once, as a new Christian, I thought I should give something up, so I did the standard chocolate thi...
I know, I don't look old enough to have been married for forty years. Oh...that wasn't what you were thinking? Never mind, then.
While our marriage and famil...
A funny thing has been happening the last couple of years. People come up to me and tell me they are envious of our family. They want what we have—namely, the a...
Hebrews 9:1-10:2
I’ve often heard that it’s a privilege to be an American, not a right. Or that it’s a privilege to work at a particular place, not a right.
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Advent Season is here! I know that there a few churches that don’t follow the liturgical calendar, so people who are part of those churches don’t fully get Adve...
The Pendulum
In it's original manuscript form my book, The Fury of God, did not have a concluding chapter. Truthfully, I didn't even want to write the conclusi...
