Sermon Series:Joshua: Putting God's Power to Work in Your Life

This week Sue and I traveled to New Albany, Indiana to attend the funeral of a dear friend. A 42-year-young man named Jerry Walker, who was a teenager in the youth group of my seminary church 27 years ago, had a massive heart attack and died, leaving a wife and three children behind. Jerry was […]

A week or so ago Sue and I watched a four-minute segment on Good Morning America in which Robin Roberts “aged” forty years. Of course, she didn’t really grow old in that amount of time. The clip we saw had to do with an experiment in aging in which she did a great deal to […]

My first room-mate in college was a guy named John Smith (real name withheld) and I think the housing office paired us up because on our application we both checked the box that said we were Christians. Plus John was a couple years ahead of me and back then colleges often matched upperclassmen like John […]

Have you ever made a blunder and you felt so foolish afterwards that if it were anatomically possible you would have kicked yourself? I don’t know about you but I have no problem coming up with a long list of times like that in my own life-times when I felt like such a dope! In […]

Like most of you, Sue and stayed up late most nights the past few weeks in order to watch the delayed broadcast of the Winter Olympic games that were being held in Turin, Italy. We pretty much watched it all. We loved the ice-skating and the snow board racing and down hill skiing. We were […]

One of my favorite “fun read” books as of late was Newt Gingrich’s Gettysburg, and I must confess, until I saw it on the shelf I didn’t know that Gingrich was a writer. I only knew him from the political headlines he made a few years back so I was very surprised to find him […]

One of my dad’s favorite TV shows was Get Smart. Do any of you remember that sitcom from yesteryear? Well, Dad loved it. He almost never missed an episode. He’d take a break from his sermon prep to watch because he really enjoyed the antics of Secret Agent 86, a role that was played by […]

Have you ever felt overwhelmed? Maybe you remember experiencing this feeling as a parent the first time you brought your baby home from the hospital. You instantly loved the little guy or gal with every molecule in your body, but as you considered the challenge of feeding, clothing, and parenting that child for the next […]