If You’re Going Through Hell If you’re going through hellKeep on going, don’t slow downIf you’re scared, don’t show itYou might get out before the devil even knows you’re there Rodney Atkins A Cross-Country Move On June 12th, we packed up our apartment in New Haven, Connecticut. It was a grueling day. Even though we …
Pictures and reflections on my pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral with my seminary class.
Franklin Graham and Progressive Christianity Franklin Graham, son of famous Evangelist and Christian speaker, Billy Graham, recently penned an article for Decision Magazine entitled, The Eternal Peril of Progressive Christianity. In it, he writes: It has cropped up in the halls of seminaries, infiltrated the pulpits of thousands of churches and been propagated by a …
The Service Industry Changed My Heart This post was originally published in 2015. I tell the college-aged women at my church that service industry work builds character, and I truly believe that. You’re being paid to interact with whoever comes in the door; to answer even dumb questions with kindness; and to treat rich and …
Why abortion arguments on both sides get it wrong, and why seeing each other’s intentions matters if we want to expand human sacredness to encompass all people.
Sermon on Jeremiah 31 Fifth Sunday in Lent, Given March 21, 2021 Reading: Jeremiah 31:31-34 Today’s reading from Jeremiah contains some of the most comforting language to be found in the Bible: “I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they …
Given on the Last Sunday after the Epiphany, February 14, 2021 Gospel Reading: Mark 9:2-9 Look Again: A Sermon for the Last Sunday after the Epiphany Let me tell you a bit about my process for writing this sermon. You see, it’s the first sermon I’ve written since the first Sunday of Advent – way …
A Sermon Given on the First Day of Advent Gospel Reading: Mark 13:24-37. Read here. “And what I say to you I say to all: Keep awake.”Amen. Happy New Year! Today is the first day of Advent, which marks the beginning of a new year in churches that follow the liturgical calendar. While the rest …
At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him, ‘Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.’ He said to them, ‘Go and tell that fox for me, “Listen, I am casting out demons and performing cures today and tomorrow, and on the third day I finish my work. Yet today, tomorrow, and the …
A Sermon Preached on September 20, 2020 Readings: Exodus 16:2-15 Matthew 20:1-16 Draw near to the Lord, for he has heard your [whining]. When I was a kid, my sister and I inherited nicknames from our older cousins. My sister, prone to ramming her head into things by sitting too close to sharp-edged coffee tables, …