No Time To Stand And Stare
My mother used to recite the lines of a poem when we needed to stop and enjoy. It went like this: “What is this world if full of care, we
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No One Will Ever Complain
“No one will ever complain if you stop your sermon five minutes early,” my wife used to tell me. I was at a meeting of pastors recently where a series
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Losing The Flavor
You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if it has lost its flavor? Matthew 5: 13 NLT The elevator door opened and the smell of
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Finding Abundance
We have been talking about abundance at church. Abundance can’t just mean outer circumstances. We all know about the misery of some wealthy people, suicides in mansions, overdoses by the
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I Can Plod
William Carey was a missionary who worked tirelessly as a linguist and established a strong foundation for many Bible translations and educational facilities in India. He is the one who
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Getting Things Done
January is a good time to take stock and look ahead. I suppose in some way we all want to have a productive year. We want to be sure to
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Fighting The Right Fight
You can’t see the picture when you are inside the frame. Any coming break from the normal routine gives us a chance to step outside the picture of our lives
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Well Done Not Well Said
This month we are focusing on the last letter that Paul wrote, according to many scholars–2 Timothy. In it, he gives some hard-nosed instructions to a young man. Among other
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Tuning In
Change is in the air–you can feel the cooler wind coming after the August heat. Time to decide what we value. In Proverbs, the spirit of Wisdom says, “listen to
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