Last night President George Bush made a speech from New Orleans. As speeches go it hit all the right notes: compassionate, visionary, and spiritual. I believe most Americans who heard him speaking agreed with the programs he outlined for re-building… Continue reading

His father loved him, perhaps too much. God chose him and while he was young made the sketch of His plans known to him. His brothers hated him- because he was favored by their father and God. So, finding an… Continue reading

While searching for the right room for a meeting I was to attend, I poked my head into an open doorway. There on the floor, in a cardboard box, I saw a pile of dusty, old trophies – once highly… Continue reading

When I think of somebody who chose to hang in there, whose steadiness is inspiring, I think of a man who looked like a bulldog, whose gravelly voice kept England’s morale up all the way through World War 2 –… Continue reading

Children ask ‘why’ so much, it leaves parents exasperated! I was one of those kids. In my dim memory, I recall a nice yellow school bus toy, with blinking lights, that was a gift from my Grandmother. I’m talking 1960… Continue reading

A sage observed there are three messages conveyed in any conversation; “what is said, what you think I said, and what I think I said!” Any married couple understands that one. As they are getting dressed to go to dinner,… Continue reading

Yesterday as I was watching the news coverage coming out of Mississippi’s devastated coastal area, I saw an elderly woman returning to her home for the first time, a week after Hurricane Katrina. Her face noticeably brightened as she saw… Continue reading

Representing Christ is a high calling for which I often feel only marginally qualified, if at all! Paul’s words, “who is equal to such a task?” (2 Cor. 2:16) are words with which I can easily identify. A Believer is… Continue reading

For several days the news media has blasted the President and the Federal Emergency Management Administration for their failure in the relief efforts that followed Hurricane Katrina. What exactly does ‘success’ look like when an evacuation of an entire city… Continue reading

I’m often asked, “When I am called on to comfort a friend who is going through a time of great loss, what should I say, Pastor?” My first counsel is ‘just be there.’ A young man died and his family… Continue reading