In just 2 days, we’re all going to be inundated with the annual swarm of costumed kids knocking at our doors, reciting those hollow-ween words, “Trick or Treat;” hollow because no kid comes prepared to do a trick anymore. They’re banging on our doors for one thing and one thing only, “a candy treat!” On … [Read more…]
Whenever there are five Sundays in a month, we celebrate our Lord in a different fashion. Instead of the usual order of service that includes a 30-minute sermon, our Praise Band leads us through about a dozen contemporary songs that are interspersed with prayers of thanksgiving and praise “from the floor.” This week we will … [Read more…]
While my wife and I were away on vacation last week, our church family held an impromptu business meeting. It seems that both Sundays when I was absent from the pulpit, the sanctuary was packed!; the congregation deducing a direct cause-effect correlation. So it’s sending us back down to Hilton Head next Monday; only this … [Read more…]
It was back on Halloween of 1517 that Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses onto the chapel door at Wittenberg University in Germany. As a scholar himself, teaching Bible and theology on the faculty, he was requesting that the Holy See provide a forum to debate his growing concerns over his Church’s sale of indulgences. … [Read more…]
Pause for a moment and honestly ponder the question, “Why do we pray?” Is it to defeat terrorist groups and rescue persecuted Christians worldwide – or is it to plead my son to make the high school baseball team or my daughter to receive a college scholarship? Is it to protect preborn children from “Choice” … [Read more…]
