“Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world...
By nature, I am not an introspective person. I have to be deliberate and call myself to look honestly at my life, examine my patterns of action and the motives that drive me. This self-examination is sometimes painful, but is always fruitful in giving me perspective...
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” (Matt. 11:28-30, NIV) Of all...
“Can praying combat crime?” That was the title of the lead article in our newspaper back in mid-December. (12-11-21) A small group of ministers met on the banks of the Mississippi River to pray for our city which is the nation’s second-poorest city, and has the...
“Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.” (Gal. 5:24-26, NIV) The Christian walk is a...
The title of my blog today is a familiar word, “Let us now praise famous men.” It is the beginning of a passage in The Wisdom of Sirach. The entire sentence is, "Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us". In a recent blog I talked about Elvis...