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

The Simple Things, the Good Things: Billy Graham Library and an Advent Renewal

  Peggy Noonan once said that the most profound things are said the simplest. We say, “I love you.” Deep, moving, covenantal, eternal. Simple. For most of the Twentieth Century one man, Billy Graham, said the most profound things, over and 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

Embers to a Flame and RTS Charlotte Forging New Partnership

Through a memorandum of agreement with Dr. Harry Reeder, Briarwood Presbyterian Church and Embers to a Flame, Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, NC is introducing a Doctor of Ministry with an Emphasis in Church Revitalization. The first group of Continue Reading

Fallow Ground: The G20 and a Humble Plan Submitted for Worldwide Economic Recovery

  The fallow ground of the poor would yield much food, but is swept away through injustice (Proverbs 13:23 ESV). My Aunt Eva’s lessons in economics from years gone by are still fresh in my mind today. She didn’t have a degree in that subject. She Continue Reading

“You are Simon…You Shall Be Called Peter: A ‘First Person’ Easter Sermon”

I preached the following sermon as a first person expository sermon from Luke 5.1-11; John 1.40-42; and John 20.1-10; 21.1-19. This Easter message I now offer to others for both edification and fodder for what will become better sermons in your pulpit. I Continue Reading

Comes a Time: A Maundy Thursday Covenant Renewal Message

The ReadingJoshua 24.1-2,14-18,22,25 Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel. And they presented themselves before God. Joshua 24.1 And Joshua said to all the people, Continue Reading

Engrafted Not Replaced

Reformed Perspectives Magazine, a journal put out by Third Millennium Ministries, has published an article I wrote entitled, Engrafted, Not Replaced: How I View Ethnic Israel, and Why I Support Ethnic Jews and the State of Israel and Pray for Them to Continue Reading

Shared Files

I have installed a new widget on the right hand sidebar. Box.net allows users to place files on their sites for downloading. I have added a Box.net widget in order to allow you to download "Sovereign Grace Postlude," which is a song appearing on the He Continue Reading

Trusting in the God Who Sends

A Sermon on Exodus 3.13-17; John 20.19-21 by Dr. Michael A. Milton, Senior Minister, originally Preached on: Sunday, November 4th, 2007 at The First Presbyterian Church, Chattanooga, TN At the conclusion of this message, I announced that I had accepted Continue Reading