COMFORT IN A TIME OF CHAOS 

America is hurtling towards events that may change us beyond recognition in the months and years ahead. Whether we are located on the political left or right it looks like an approaching train wreck and we wonder how bad it will be.  If you feel the need for...

THE STONE WAS ROLLED AWAY 

The circumstances of modern life may cause feelings of depression and loneliness—ten minutes of watching the evening news can do that to you! Here’s a thought that might help to lift the gloom.    In the darkest moment of world history—the crucifixion,...

What If God is Not Enough for You? 

You appoint yourself in His place! After years of assigning God to the margins of society an impulse to self-deification seems to be the response of increasing numbers of our fellow citizens who have established a new home-grown religion complete with priests (the...

WALKING BY THE WORD OF GOD 

Left to our own devices, we tend to lie to ourselves. We deceive ourselves into hearing what we want to hear, doing what is pleasing to our senses, and pursuing what makes us feel happy.  When we seek to live by God’s wisdom, we say to our emotions;...

A Shepherd is a Sermon 

A shepherd of God’s people is a living testimony to the reality of God. Sunday sermons are only one aspect of the larger sermon that is the outworking of the Life of God in a pastor’s life and in the life of his family. He is “known and read by all men” as an object...

HOW TO TUNE YOUR MORAL COMPASS 

God has given each person an internal moral compass. The conscience can be a powerful inner voice that helps guide our behavior, but it can also be beaten into silence so that it no longer warns us that what we are about to do is wrong.    The best way to...