This article first appeared in our weekly newsletter in 2019. I’ve updated it for 2024. I had a good question posed to me this week. “What makes your church different than any other church?” I want to answer it carefully, for I never really like to compare our church to...
How far can a church go to house homeless people? Should it be illegal? There’s a court case in Ohio that is both interesting and distressing. The pastor of a church in a small town of about 8,600 people in Ohio had 18 criminal charges filed against him for violating...
This Sunday, January 21, 2024, is Sanctity of Life Sunday. Because I preach through Bible books like I’m doing now with Proverbs, I don’t focus my preaching on the various “special Sundays” on denominational calendars. There are simply too many special Sundays to cover, and we would simply go from...
I want to tell you a love story tonight. It’s the greatest love story that ever occurred and I want you to know it. No other love story—and there have been thousands of them lived and written about and portrayed in movies—comes close. It’s greater than the love story of...
On November 3, America will choose a President. It may be our existing President Donald Trump elected to another 4-year term. Or it may be that we elect former Vice-President Joe Biden to a term. I’m not good at making political predictions, so I won’t even make a guess. What...
We are now deep into election season, which seems to get longer every year. It’s easy to get cranky and frustrated—and maybe even more than a little bit angry—during political season. As a matter of fact, candidates want us to get angry. They know that an angry person is more...
Like many families with school-age children in the 1960’s and 70’s, my parents bought a very expensive but very helpful encyclopedia set. It had 30 volumes and came with 10 years-or-so of annual supplements that provided us with new knowledge and corrections. It became for us (after the Bible of course)...
