Father's Day is a day to remember that God made dads. And when they break, and they can and often do, only He can fix them. 2 Samuel 18:24-19.2; Proverbs 17:6; Ephesians 6:1-4The Bible is very practical and plain, sometimes disturbingly so. Like in the Continue Reading
June 12, 2013
Discerning God’s Call for Your Life
One of my favorite stories about calling comes from south Louisiana. A Pentecostal preacher was having some chest pains and was rushed to the hospital. It was quickly determined by the medical personnel that he needed open-heart surgery. So they put him Continue Reading
March 22, 2013 2 Comments
Thoughts on Faith from a Garden in March and Pastoral Ministry
For a gardener, like myself, March is an in-between month. The dried, gray-brown stalks on the oak leaf hydrangea, left over from last autumn, stand at attention, like a proud, old war veteran in his outdated, ill-fitting military uniform. And like a Continue Reading
March 12, 2013
Difficult but Necessary: Relinquishing Leadership in Winter to Renew in Another Season of Ministry
March 11, 2013 Dearly Beloved in the Lord: I greet you in the name of our God and Savior Jesus Christ. I write you to also make an announcement that must come on the heels of a series of providences that both surprised me and have tried me—body and Continue Reading
November 22, 2012 Leave a Comment
A Divine Recipe for a Transformative Thanksgiving: An Exposition of Psalm 100
I want to bring you a message taken from the Psalms that forms the core of our hymnody—the old 100th—“A Psalm of praise.” But the Hebrew word for Praise here, is the same word that is later translated “Thanksgiving.” It is the Hebrew word Continue Reading
November 8, 2012
New Christmas Album Released and Dedicated to the Glory of God and to Fund Scholarships for Seminarians
Released October 23, 2012 We dedicate this album to the glory of God and to the glorious Christ whose Incarnation has brought us a Savior who lived the life we could never live and died the death that should have been ours. May many hear and believe. Continue Reading
June 9, 2012
Strong Straps and Secure Steps: A Graduation Address
CSUF Photos / FoterI cannot imagine a more important address the one I’ve been called to give tonight. It could not be more important if there were thousands of Oxford University graduates here and not a small gathering of homeschooled graduates and Continue Reading
A Conspicuous Absence: Why There is No Separation of Church and State Outcry on North Carolina’s Proposition One Debate
Joshuajohanson / Foter I was appalled. A sign in front of a Baptist church in Charlotte openly advocates its opposition to Proposition One in North Carolina. The proposition, which is due to go to the ballot in NC on May 8, 2012, reads: “Marriage Continue Reading