I do a lot of funerals.  Part of it goes with the job, since I’m a pastor.  But M. L. Ford & Sons Funeral Service […]

In high school, I was shy.  I was really shy.  I studied, I made good grades, but I didn’t go to parties, I didn’t drive […]

Once in the Old Testament Moses was complaining to God that the people of Israel didn’t have any meat while they were out in the […]

I once heard a story about a man who was out fishing.  He had fished all day and hadn’t caught anything.  To make matters worse, […]

During Advent, Tyra, Joshua, and I went to ImaginOn, the Children’s Theater of Charlotte, to see Barbara Robinson’s play, “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.”  One […]

The coming of Jesus into the world at Christmas did change the way the world thought of God.  Before, the thought of God always meant bad news […]

I know a person whose life was well fixed.  She and her husband had a good marriage, worked a prosperous business, had three good kids.  […]

If someone were to ask Jesus who had been the most influential preacher in his life, I don’t think he would hesitate to answer.  I […]

One of the emails that comes across my desk each week is called “Church Leaders” and this week it included an article by Andrew Hess […]

I want you to use your imagination as you read the devotional this week.  Imagine that suddenly, magically, mystically, providentially, you had a checkingaccount full […]