Three Principles for Embracing the New Year
We are in the “Year in Review” season! That time of year when the news channels, periodicals, and even our own hearts look back at the...
To Everything There Is a Season and a Reason
The Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons can be a combination of great joy and, oddly, some melancholy. They mark the coming and going of...
LESSONS FROM THE LIFE OF CALEB
“Give me this mountain…” I find Caleb to be one of the most inspiring personalities in the Old Testament. At eighty-five years old, he...
THE INFLUENCE OF A GODLY LAYMAN
I recently attended a town planning commission meeting where we now live in North Carolina. It was an important meeting for our...
WHEN WEAKNESS BECOMES STRENGTH
I have just finished my morning walk, one of the great blessings of not having to be in the office early! On that walk I had the...
CHOOSING TO REACT WITH GRACE
Recently, on a drive through North Carolina, a very rude driver cut me off on the highway for the very important need of gaining one spot...
Systematic Giving vs. Emotional Giving
After preaching for 43 years, I am very glad that there is an emotional component to my salvation and my walk with the Lord. I love that...
THE PASTOR JOINED A CHURCH!
For thirty-seven years, my wife and I were members of Heritage Baptist Church in Woodbridge, Virginia. By the way, they were thirty-seven...
A GROWING FORCE
Recently Nancy and I vacationed in the north woods of Minnesota. For me, it was a dream come true; for my wife, it was an act of love...
THE IMPORTANCE OF (a) HERITAGE
The month of May has been a very interesting month for my wife and me. It has been filled with some very special moments that have led us...
