skip to Main Content

Rocking the Boat

My adult daughters and sons-in-law do their best to keep my social media posts positive, but there are times, when I see the City of God being deceived, that I cannot be silent. One of my readings this morning was…

Read More

Returning

As a young pastor, in my first senior pastorate, I once had to counsel a man who had been very active in the church, but, it turned out, had been having an affair with another woman in the church for…

Read More

God Using Scoundrels

If you have lived for any length of time, you have come across situations where God appears to be using, even blessing, people in ministry that we wouldn’t use. I don’t mean when God uses broken people. We all fall…

Read More

Worship Wars

Some things never change. The story is told that back in the days of the Second Great Awakening, Charles G. Finney was in a minister’s meeting where a heated argument had broken out regarding allowing “bass violins” into church worship.…

Read More

Wait

Anyone out there love the process of waiting? I didn’t think so... especially when access to information, our friends, 300Mbps downloads, Uber Eats, or online shopping is all at our fingertips. I can’t be the only one who slaps a…

Read More

Covered

A friend of mine uses an HR tool, called a Simmons Survey, to measure emotional intelligence in areas of life, like energy, conflict, detail, work and social scores. The survey is able to distinguish how you view yourself from how…

Read More

Enduring Victory

God’s presence, during the first 325 years of Israel’s occupation of the Promised Land, rested over the Ark of the Covenant in the Tabernacle at Shiloh. Unfortunately, during those years, Israel forgot God and embraced the culture’s idols - treating…

Read More

As It Turned Out

I wonder how much time I have wasted in my life planning, waiting, even praying, for the “big break?" Big breaks are exciting. And they do happen. The problem is that when we see them happen in other people’s lives,…

Read More

Speed Dating

I’ve only seen it on TV commercials, but it looks ridiculous and desperate. A room full of people walking around with drinks in their hands, looking for meaningful relationships, but limited to five minutes of table-talk with each other to…

Read More
Back To Top