As a pastor-teacher, I get the opportunity, by God's grace, to express the delight in my heart over Jesus Christ almost every week at First Presbyterian Church of Chattanooga as well as other opportunities extended (and you may find a record of those Continue Reading
August 9, 2007 Leave a Comment
The Common People Heard Him Gladly
Isaiah 52.6-7; Mark 12.37 One of the reasons I seek to represent you and the Lord is by being involved in the life of the community. In this way, I get the opportunity to bring the Good News of Jesus Christ. This week I found myself sitting next to a Continue Reading
July 27, 2007 Leave a Comment
What God Starts, God Completes
About two years ago, Christian Focus Publications of Scotland approached me about writing an autobiography. I resisted at first, thinking that (1) I was too young for such a thing; and (2) I had not lived a life interesting enough for others to read. Continue Reading
July 25, 2007 Leave a Comment
Out of Our Minds
When they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, dressed and in his right mind; and they were afraid. Luke 8.35 NIV The story of the man of the tombs, the insane savage who existed in the graves of Continue Reading
July 21, 2007 Leave a Comment
Cramming
“But David strengthened himself in the LORD his God” (1 Samuel 30.6b ESV). I met a doctor recently. I told him that we have so many fine physicians in our flock that if I ever had to call, “Is there a doctor in the house?” half of the Continue Reading
July 15, 2007 Leave a Comment
The Waldorf Astoria, Celebrities, and Heaven
I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 8.11 O the joys of frequent traveler points. As a result of creative purchasing and Continue Reading
June 30, 2007 Leave a Comment
Is There Not a Cause? A Patriotic Illustration for the Church
And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause? 1-Samuel 17.29 The last combat veteran on record from World War One died. Cpl. Howard V. Ramsey died in his sleep on February 22 at an assisted living center in Portland, Oregon (see the Continue Reading
June 10, 2007 Leave a Comment
God Knows Your Name
The following was delivered, in Albanian, to the adolescent orphans at the Hope for the World orphanage in Tirana, Albania. I have previously posted the Albanian version, and I now offer it in English. It is my great honor to be with you this evening. My Continue Reading
June 8, 2007 Leave a Comment
PERËNDIA E DI EMRIN TËND (God Knows Your Name)
I delivered this message to teens in the Hope for the World Albanian orphanage in Tirana, Albania in late May of 2007. I sought to identify my own childhood as an orphan with theirs. And I gave this message in thier langugae. Oh that it was the language Continue Reading
