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stalks on the oak leaf hydrangea, left over from last autumn, stand at attention, like a proud, old war veteran in his outdated, ill-fitting military uniform.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
April 9, 2012 1 Comment
I Will Not Let Go of Easter
I will not let go of Easter. More properly, I affirm that the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is not something that I will celebrate and remember on one day of the year. In the Reformed faith, that is in the Protestant faith of Martin Luther and John Calvin Continue Reading
August 24, 2010
The Blessings of Being in Seminary
The following message was delivered at New Student Orientation, on August 23, at Reformed Theological Seminary, Charlotte, NC Seminary: A Ministry of Preparation Recently I participated in the ordination of a young man to the Gospel ministry, to pastor a Continue Reading
August 17, 2008
Family Devotions, 1 John 5:13 and The Cottar’s Saturday Night
This entry originally appeared on The Call with Mike Milton. Visit there for more thoughts, reflections and resources. he following letter is one that I wrote to my family following last night’s devotions, in which we studied 1 John. Our Continue Reading
May 10, 2008
Little Girl Arise! How Jesus Ministers to Women Today
I offer this sermon, preached on a Mother's Day Sunday at First Presbyterian Church of Chattanooga, as "sermon fodder" for preachers as well as for devotional reading for all. Mark 5.22-43 Then came one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, 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
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