What it Means to Trust God
We live in unique times. With the COVID-19 pandemic, we are facing challenges most of us have never seen in our lifetime.
Such challenges should encourage us to trust in God. Consider these passages:
The...
A Great Man’s Secret
Only one member of the church of Christ has ever been elected President of the United States, James A. Garfield. When he was a young man, an aged friend gave him a slip of...
The Song of a Soul Set Free (Psalm 32)
Marghanita Laski, a well-known secular humanist, once said, “What I envy most about you Christians is your forgiveness; I have nobody to forgive me.”1
David was one of Scripture’s great saints. He was also one...
A Caring Cowboy
A family, all nine of them, loaded all their earthly possessions into a covered wagon pulled by a four-horse hitch and set out to join fourteen other families leaving Arkansas headed for Texas and...
Did he spit in the face of an umpire?
In 2005, the chaplain for the Washington National's baseball team was suspended and barred from the clubhouse. What did he do?
Five Bible Pictures of Hope
The Bible uses five pictures to help us understand hope. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then five pictures are worth a whole sermon full of words.
Hope is light—to help us see...
Pro-Choice?
After I spoke at a public high school on the pro-life position, the pro-choice instructor took me to the faculty lounge for lunch. He pointed to a table where four teachers were smoking and...
The Anchor of the Soul
No one who knows what can happen at sea would go to sea in a vessel that carried no anchor, even if it were the greatest and most modern ocean liner afloat. Circumstances might...
Can’t Be Stopped
Can’t Be Stopped
A funny story came out of the old Brooklyn Dodgers football team in the early years of professional football.
George Cafego played halfback for the Dodgers. One day they were playing the New...