When I was in India teaching I met with many strange and exotic things. It is said that India assaults all of your senses at once. This was, in a
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
What is a Seminary President?
One retired, well-respected seminary president once told me, soon after I was called to be president of RTS Charlotte, “Mike, here are my two words to
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
A Hymn about Joseph for Christmas: “O How Tender Was the Man”
O HOW TENDER WAS THE MAN Words by Michael A. Milton, 1999; Tune: REDHEAD/Richard Redhead, 1853 “Then Joseph, being aroused from sleep, did as the
A Christmas Letter to Friends of RTS
The following Christmas letter was sent to friends of RTS, and it is offered here with every prayer that you would know the blessing of the presence