Blessed With A Great Mom
Proverbs 1.8 “do not forsake you mother’s teaching. . . .” Her name is Margaret Hildegard Schnell. Schnell means “quick” in German. She has…
New Years
My Last Day on Pastoral Call
This week I had my last day on pastoral call as I prepare to leave our church and take a new position as seminary…
Singing Praise to God with Saints and Angels: THE DOXOLOGY
If you answer the question honestly, you might draw strange looks. The question being—what else did you do in church today? The proper response…
Growing Spiritually During Holy Week
Do you observe Holy Week? One third of Jesus’ teaching focus on this week. One third of his works took place during this week.…
The ESV Study Bible and The Book of Eli
Let me warn you at the outset, THE BOOK OF ELI is an R rated film. It is raw. It is violent. It has…
Creation, Fall, Redemption and Sea World
In our November visit to Sea World, my daughter left with a stuffed Shamu (that’s the collective show name for the giant killer whales…
Why Missions?
This weekend we had our church’s foreign missions banquet. We call it “world outreach” these days. But whatever we call it, it is important…
Lisbon and Haiti, God and Earthquakes, Part 1
As Haiti’s mass graves swell, the Haitian government estimates that the death toll will reach 200,000. If that proves to be true, it will…
Lisbon and Haiti, God and Earthquakes, Part 2
In response to the earthquake in Haiti, quite a number of people have seemed to settle for keeping God out of the explanation. “There…
Helping in Haiti: Responding in the Aftermath of the Earthquake
There is much I do not know about Haiti. My knowledge of that country is small. I know that it is a country wracked…