One of my favorite things to do when leading a worship service is getting to pronounce the benediction over the congregation at the end of... Read More

My father, Art Batzig, started showing signs of dementia two and a half years ago. He died this morning after a long battle with a... Read More

Whenever I carry out pre-marital counseling sessions with a young couple in the church, I dedicate a portion of the counselling to the subject of expectations.... Read More

When I proposed to Anna in 2003, she gifted me a small, leather bound, antiquarian copy of Thomas Brooks’ The Unsearchable Riches of Christ. This little... Read More

I was voicing a complaint to a friend about the opposition I was experiencing in ministry: “Why is this happening? I didn’t do anything to... Read More

There is something breathtakingly wonderful when we stand at the top of a peak of a mountain and overlook the valleys and rivers below. We... Read More

The account of Cain and Abel (Gen. 4:1–16) is one of the most instructive portions of Scripture––not simply because it is the first account of... Read More

When I was a boy, my parents frequently quoted various Scriptures to my sister and me when they overheard us arguing with one another. Ephesians... Read More