“Come Apart for a While”—Vacation Greetings and a Prayer for My Colleagues

I will always think about a certain time in my life when I read this Scripture: "And he said to them, 'Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while.' For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat" (Mark 6:31 ESV). I Continue Reading

The Image of God and the Image of Evil in the Darkened Theater in Colorado

As another day dawns after the chilling massacre at the midnight cinema killing in Colorado, new things will come to light out of that darkened thither of death. There will be human stories that break our hearts, of new high school grads preparing for Continue Reading

A Season to Remember: An Ash Wednesday Message to the Anglican Communities of Charlotte

Joel 2:1-2,12-17; 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10 Many of us instinctively feel the need for seasons. We can look at my own state of North Carolina as an example.  Sociologists call this the “J Curve” effect. New Yorkers head straight down 95 to Fort Continue Reading

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

A Vision That Is Out Of This World

What is your vision for your life? For your ministry? For your family? Arising from your faith? Matthew Henry once wrote that "…Those that sow and those that reap shall rejoice together, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming"[1]. That Continue Reading

A Theology of God’s Love: The Blessings of Justification in Romans 5.1-11

We come to the fifth chapter of Romans and in this magnificent chapter we will take away truths that will transform life and culture and I would say that the very idea of government and democracy and literature and all of Western Civilization could rest Continue Reading