Christmas Eve worship is one of the most beautiful and inspiring times in the life of a congregation and in the ministry of a pastor. The service may be seen by the pastor as challenging because everyone knows that you are going to say something about Continue Reading
December 13, 2011 Leave a Comment
When God Calls: Genesis 12:1-2
Have you ever had a call in the middle of the night, when your teenager is out? When the phone rings, you look at it for a few seconds before you pick it up, don't you? It seems that your heart stops beating in those suspended seconds. When God calls, it Continue Reading
October 30, 2011 Leave a Comment
A Singing Faith: The Reformation and Music (with free download of “I Glory in the Cross”)
The Christian faith is a singing faith. The Reformation recovered this because the Reformation recovered the Gospel of God’s grace revealed from the authority of the Word of God, which was recovered through a revival of the supremacy of preaching. The Continue Reading
January 1, 2011
Reaching Up! A Sermon for the New Year
It is interesting to look back. Here is my sermon from last year for the New Year. It has some chronologically specific items in it. Yet I trust that it contains the timeless truths of Scripture which will again speak to us today. I am convalescing with Continue Reading
July 29, 2010
Thinking about the Cedar Falls Bible Conference, Willa Cather and Ha Erets
This summer I’m preaching at the annual Cedar Falls Bible Conference in Cedar Falls, Iowa. They hold it at a campground just like they’ve been doing since the turn of the last century. Some of the same families who were there when these hearty, godly Continue Reading
July 9, 2010
Acknowledge the Sin, Accentuate the Grace, Honor the Fathers: Why I love the PCA and RTS
Then he died at a good age, full of days, riches, and honor. And Solomon his son reigned in his place. 1 Chronicles 29.28 There has been some talk lately, quite recently, that has come to me about the publication of a book (by Peter Slade) claiming that Continue Reading
May 31, 2010
A Doxology in the Darkness: How God Transforms Your Pain into Praise
“To know that nothing hurts the godly, is a matter of comfort; but to be assured that all things which fall out shall co-operate for their good, that their crosses shall be turned into blessings, that showers of affliction water the withering root of Continue Reading
May 21, 2010
A Romans 13 Exposition on Church and State for Such a Time as This
Listen to two radio interiviews taken from this article on Truths that Transform: Part 1 Part 2 As our nation reels from the intrusive and questionable advances of the Federal government into the authority given to the State and to the individual Continue Reading
