Stacks of Books and Old Friends for a New Journey

I now share with you some quotes from a few books piled up in a corner of my office. I had hoped at the end of last year,  to stack all of my New Year readings up in that one place. Perhaps next year. The problem is that I read at "stations:" some Continue Reading

Elizabeth’s Song: An Advent Sermon

The next movement in the Symphony of Christmas after Mary’s opening happens as Mary travels from Nazareth to the hill country of Judea.  One commentator has written that: “[Mary] probably traveled fifty to seventy miles from Nazareth to Zechariah’s Continue Reading

Trusting the God Who Speaks

The following post is not a full manuscript but some notes suggestive of the message from Exodus Chapter Three in a series called Trusting God. Exodus 3.1-5 (ESV) Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he Continue Reading

“Lamplighter” for Christ: The Funeral Celebration of D. James Kennedy

Frederich Buechner wrote:"It's hard not to believe that somehow or other there's always going to be another time with them, another day, so the chances are we won't know it's the last time, and therefore it won't have the terrible sadness about it that Continue Reading

A Message for Sinners Only: Romans 3.19-25

The passage before us is an indictment of the sin of Jew and Greek in the Roman church. The Greek who felt justified before God before they didn’t know about the One true God were judged guilty. The law was written on their hearts. They knew there was a Continue Reading