We used to live in a pretty exclusive neighborhood in the Western Suburbs of Chicago. The people who owned homes there (we did not) were people of considerable means. Across the street was a huge, white, Mediterranean-style home. Each of it’s many garage stalls was embedded with a luxury car sparkling like a gem. The […]
Preaching is Like Having a Baby
In case you haven’t noticed lately–no one’s life is a bowl of cherries. Life only looks easy when you see other people doing it. A friend of mine once said; “Being a pastor is a wonderful gig–if you can get it.” That’s true. It is a wonderful calling and I love it. But it’s not […]
Angry with Hunger
I have no idea why I like to read books on farming but I do. I have warm memories of the farm of my youth though my experience there was limited to brief visits. On days off I sometimes gravitate toward the writing of Kentucky farmer Wendell Berry or Ohio farmer David Kline or other […]
A Sacred Memory
(Incident from the summer of 2010) It’s Saturday evening toward nine. I’ve been at a beautiful camp in northern Michigan this week speaking to teens. I speak twice a day and spend time with campers and counselors between my chapel talks. It’s been gray and cool most of the week. I came tired and pressured […]
A Flyover of Revelation
This evening I feel like I finished a Marathon! For the first time in my life I finished preaching through every book of the Bible. I started Sunday evening April 18, 2010 and finished a little over three years later on May 12, 2013. Each Sunday night that I was in the Evangel Pulpit I […]
Mother’s Day Message 2013
Here is something burning on my heart that I feel the Lord wanted me to preach to the folk at Evangel on Mother’s Day. Let me know what you think.
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