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

Former US President Reagan loved a story which he said illustrated optimism. Seems a little boy hoped to get a pony for Christmas. Finding a room full of manure, he dug in saying, “if there is this much manure, there… Continue reading

James wrote to us, “Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides.” (James 1:2, The Message) I want to embrace that command, but it is hard to do. Who likes hard times,… Continue reading

Some readers of yesterday’s TFTD questioned if I had become a fatalist. By that, they wondered if I had concluded that the only response to sorrow, tragedy, and suffering is quiet resignation, accepting fate. Is that what trusting God means?… Continue reading

The pictures and stories trickling out of Mississippi and Louisiana are simply awesome in the most fearful aspect of that word! One reporter blandly opined, “this is certainly a reminder of the power of Nature.” I beg to differ. This… Continue reading

This morning (8/29/2005) the news networks are trumpeting the impending disaster in the Southeastern US from the storm named Katrina. Whether she will live up to the hype will be known in a few hours. Many are saying that the… Continue reading

I just spent a most delightful couple of days with my adult kids. I am a man most blessed as I see the choices they are making, the way they are investing their lives in good things, loving God and… Continue reading

About ten years ago, the acronym, WWJD, became part of our cultural lexicon. Remember it? What Would Jesus Do. The intent is to get people to integrate the message of Jesus Christ into their daily decisions. It is easy to… Continue reading