Please click here for an audio version of this message. What will you do when trouble comes? How will you confront health calamities and career…
Churches are starting to meet again. Some began last Sunday, for us it is this weekend, and others in the coming weeks. Courts have ruled…
Author’s Note: I published this on my blog about seven years ago. It seems timely for us to revisit this psalm. – JO Hear my…
An unexpected crisis, a frustrating detour, or a messy stumbling-block, can send us into a tailspin. Things like pandemics really play havoc with our 21st…
At the outset of the present quarantine, everything was bizarre, electric, and controversial. People filled their time arguing over lethality, R₀ rates, and balancing lives…
How many times have you heard someone say this about the word all? “All means ‘all’ and that’s all that all means?” While this is…
I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my forefathers did, as without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and…
Americans have always placed a premium on individualism. But, in the Coronavirus pandemic, we have carried individualism to a new level. To avoid going out,…
Many Americans received their stimulus checks last week.1 If you haven’t received yours yet, it will be arriving soon. What will you do with this…
How long, O you sons of men, will you turn my glory to shame? How long will you love worthlessness and seek falsehood? Selah. (Psalm…
Regretting transgenders, victims of abuse, PTDS sufferers, anyone feeling damaged in mind and body—this passage of scripture is for you. It’s Isaiah’s message of hope…
“I am the bomb…” —C.S. Lewis, Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics I’ve been slowly working my way through Letters of C. S. Lewis…
When we consider the state of our world — full of fear, frustration, overreaching government, faithlessness, clamoring media, vicious politics, neighbors set against neighbors, restrictions,…
Have you heard of any good medicines? Some recent advertisements have touted treatments that are supposed to be good for you. But after you hear…
Psalm 88 is a lament. The psalmist is greatly distressed and emotional. Most interpreters of the psalm believe the reason for the distress lies in…
In an article in Christianity Today this last week, Jim Denison made the claim that Covid-19 is NOT the judgment of God. He made the…
I first encountered Janos, a Hungarian Jew, at Living Water Baptist Church in Budapest. He is a professed atheist. His mother survived Auschwitz, and I…
My wife Emily just got back from the grocery store this morning. Considering the Coronavirus pandemic, we weren’t sure what to expect. We prayed with…
Having something important to say is like landing a private jet in a jungle. You need a nice long runway to land your plane safely.…
In 1987 a toddler from Texas named Jessica McClure somehow fell into a narrow abandoned well. She ended up wedged in place 22 feet down…
