The church which I serve as pastor is currently in the process of finding a Minister to Youth. Since we posted this available position publicly, we have received 40+ resumes. Last week I received a lengthy one. As I started… Continue reading

Last night, an icy, miserable night, I sat in the church’s Fellowship Center at tables with about a dozen ministry leaders and was I ever encouraged! The meeting was about our 2006-2007 Fiscal Year budget. Fun, right? Yet as each… Continue reading

I’ve got a list of questions that will find their answers only in Heaven! You, too? We all do. One of those questions is – why does God deliver some from the fiery tests and trials while others must walk… Continue reading

A few weeks ago, while at a meeting with a friend, she remarked, “I can feel a lot of tension in you today. You keep sighing like you’re carrying the weight of the world!” I was stressed by many challenges… Continue reading

Josheb, Eleazar, and Shammah are three names linked forever in the Bible. Who? No, they were not the three guys in the fiery furnace. That would be Shadrach, Meschach, and Abednego! The first three were collectively known in Israel as… Continue reading

Scanning the employment listings in the Sunday paper is an old habit with me! I’m not looking for another job, and yet most Sunday afternoons I read down the columns. The range of jobs is wide, the qualifications varied. I… Continue reading

The story of Jesus is powerful! I’ve always believed that, but in the earliest days of my ministry I was embarrassed by the ‘simplicity’ of the proclamation of the Good News. I thought that we needed to dress up the… Continue reading

I wonder if God ever wants to use that parental line with us? When He’s trying to communicate with us about some important choice, do we listen intently? Are we tuned in so that we are even aware that He… Continue reading

What do I value? That question shaped my meditation after I read Luke 12. My family is precious to me. I love my children and grandchildren! I adore my wife with feelings akin to worship. (Yes, I know that I… Continue reading

“Did you know that they believe that…?” My friend had been to a Membership Class at the church she had attended for a year where she discovered that some of the doctrines of that church body were quite different from… Continue reading