I come from a mixtape generation. I was blessed with parents who gave me a radio/cassette player when I was 10 years old. I would be in my room for hours listening to what I could find on the limited number of radio stations...
Christ came to earth for a purpose. He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? In my tears, there is love...
One of my favorite hymns to sing in corporate worship is the widely known and much beloved song of praise “Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee.” Written by Henry Van Dyke at the turn of the twentieth century...
Look For and Encourage the Good
Sometimes it’s easy to get frustrated by the inconveniences and glitches of life. As a church we are not immune to this.
Rain, Rain Go Away, Come Again Some Other Day...?
Music Camp has enough variables on its own, so adding rain possibilities to the list just increases the consternation factor of yours truly, especially with it being two years since we last hosted camp here (due to COVID last summer)...
Within the American protestant Church most denominations are silent on Pentecost and have yielded the day to the Charismatics. As a result, definitions and descriptions of the day and its meaning are dominated by the Charismatics and these have...
This month we celebrate a season of graduation at our church, as several of our young people are graduating high school, college, or other programs. With that in mind, here are a few points of encouragement I would make to a younger version of...
Each one of us has a different way to tell time. Of course, we all have clocks and calendars that divide our lives into neatly defined, equal periods of time. But that’s not how we as creatures of habit tell time.
“Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.” (1 Corinthians 16.13) This sentiment doesn’t win any awards in our culture today. As a matter of fact, popular culture is seemingly more interested in dismantling...
You may have recently noticed your social media feeds full of people hash-tagging their Lent participation this past week – what they are fasting from, receiving ashes on Ash Wednesday, joking about giving up talking to their mother-in-law...
