Preparing for the Long Green Season We enter the Season After Pentecost, sometimes referred to as Ordinary Time, and sometimes referred to as The Long Green Season. Ordinary Time refers to the time in which the church studies the...

Faith Healing The incarnated Jesus spent much of His time healing the sick. “The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached...

The calendar is about to roll over again. “Time like an ever-rolling stream bears all our years away.” (Isaac Watts) Time is relentless and as the years go on, we realize that we are not. We wake up in the morning and ask the...

How do you know when something is right? I remember learning basic math. We were taught to check our subtraction by adding and our division by multiplying. Spiritual things don’t have mathematical proofs. So, how do we know? Spiritual...

Really? I saw a commercial on or around October 15th and the opening line was the holidays are here. There were Christmas trees and decorations along with gift boxes. I know I’m old-fashioned, but it still seems strange to me to hear...

“The Times They Are a-changin,” wrote Bob Dylan. This was a song and album released in 1964. The 1960s were considered the most tumultuous decade of the twentieth century. What will the history writers say about the times that we are...

 Time and Waiting In Genesis 18 men/angels of the Lord visit Abraham. Upon leaving they are sent to Sodom and Gomorrah. God says the outcry of the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah is so great that I must see if there is...

 Time and Waiting In Genesis 18 men/angels of the Lord visit Abraham. Upon leaving they are sent to Sodom and Gomorrah. God says the outcry of the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah is so great that I must see if there is...

A Return to Summer For most, things slow down in the summer as our schedules lose some of their weight. What are we going to do with the extra time? We can easily gravitate to the things we’ve always done, but what do we...

Faith Under Fire Somehow, people saying they believe anything is possible has not only become expected but it has also become a virtue. As a pastor, I am in different levels of relationship with many people, and it is my...