Picking Up Sticks in the Service of Jesus
One of the perennial problems of the fallen human condition is that men and women love to serve when there is respect,... Read More
7 Ways to Care for Your Wife
In that extremely complex and, at times, hard to understand section of the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Corinthians, we come across... Read More
Singing the Mediatorial Praise of Jesus
“What sort of God must He be who commands His people to sing joyfully to Him from the heart?” That was the... Read More
Reestablishing Ministry Goals
The longer I have been in ministry, the more I have found the ancient Latin proverb to be true: Repetitio mater studiorum est (i.e. repetition... Read More
2016 Writing in Review
A number of years ago, I started cataloguing all that I have written over the course of the year. I decided to... Read More
The Future of Emptiness
2016 has come and gone. As the Steve Miller Band so mesmerizingly reminded us in 1976, “Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’ into the... Read More
The Minister’s Grit
You discovered his music years before any of your friends or the mainstream media had ever heard of him. You saw him perform in... Read More
Sinful Anger: Its Cause and Cure
Pride fuels self-righteousness, self-righteousness fuels sinful anger and sinful anger fuels destructive thoughts, words and actions. Who among us has not known what... Read More
Joseph Did You Know?
I recently spent some time driving around our community in order to see the way in which Joseph was portrayed in the... Read More
Keeping Our Church Vows
When we examine and receive members in our local churches in the Presbyterian Church in America, we ask those coming for membership... Read More