If we want to finish well in our ministry, we do well to look to those who have walked before us. In my studies and conversations I have noticed several I wish to elaborate for these articles. First, they practiced discipline, at the heart of which was prayer. Sister...
Christians talk about HEAVEN as the place where they will live for eternity. ETERNAL LIFE is the life that is a gift of God which comes to those who accept Christ as God’s gift of salvation. Paul uses the phrase eternal life to describe the goal of the process of...
Could you believe it…somewhere between 200,000 and 300,000 packed in a football stadium for a funeral? I hardly knew the name…Charlie Kirk. And not just the thousands packed in the Phoenix stadium; a TV viewership of tens of millions. The first...
What a time to be alive as a Christian! What’s going on? What a time to be alive as an ordained minister, joyful in the privilege of serving in clergy leadership for over 70 years Though 91, My praying and pondering seems to focus more on the...
On Sept.10, Charlie Kirk was speaking at an outdoor event, discussing mass shootings in the U.S., with an attendee, when a single shot rang out, striking Kirk. I doubt if a day has passed since there was not some media reference to this senseless violence.This murder...
I titled my last article WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE, noting the fact that there is a new denomination in the Christian faith world: THE GLOBAL METHODIST CHURCH. I know this raises questions, “Isn't this going against the stream?” In a study published in 2022, Pew...
What a time to be alive! I don’t know many people…in fact, I don’t know anybody that is making that observation with the emotion I make it. And with all sorts of reasons, including personal timing. What a time to be alive. Our two national political parties...
O.J. Simpson, the Juice, died on April 10, at age 76. One news columnist opened his story with these words, “It marked the end of a long and turbulent life marked by poverty. survival, riches, violence, and stardom.”The centerpiece of the television reporting was a...
The article had a bold-face title: Methodists Keep Up With the Times. My friend had saved it from The Wall Street Journal (May 10) because he knew I would be interested. Just reading the title, had I not known what the article was about, I would have pronounced...
Years ago I came across a phrase that grabbed my attention. It was a season of my life when I was paying close attention to my own “spiritual state,” and as a result, seeking to develop particular spiritual disciplines. The phrase, a long obedience in the same...