Most of us spend a lot of time waiting. Waiting in traffic, waiting at airports, waiting through commercial breaks on Netflix. It makes me think Mark Twain was right when he quipped, “Good things come to those who wait – provided they don’t die in...
“Great is thy faithfulness, Great is thy faithfulness, Morning by morning new mercies I see. All I have needed thy hand hast provided; Great is thy faithfulness, Lord unto me …” Hymn: Great Is Thy Faithfulness For the 25 years that I have lived in America, I have loved Thanksgiving (the holiday)....
"But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. Then saith he unto his disciples, ‘The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the...
Proverbs 16:1-2 “To humans belong the plans of the heart, but from the Lord comes the proper answer of the tongue. All a person’s ways seem pure to them, but motives are weighed by the Lord.” Recently I read a prayer during my devotions that disturbed...
In a story often cited by Howard Thurman and Martin Luther King, Jr., Frederick Douglass once addressed an antislavery meeting at the very moment when the abolitionist movement had come under unusual strain. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 had emboldened slave catchers, returned many...
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to...
Over the past year, I’ve somewhat frequently returned to Ted Gioia’s “The Crisis of Seriousness.” Gioia laments, “Lifestyles are increasingly about pretending. Your real self stays in hiding, while your fake self gets presented in the most spectacular way on social media and other digital...
As we rise to meet this new day, let us do so with a living hope – not the frail optimism that depends on human efforts and ingenuity – but rather the living hope God has graciously granted us through the resurrection of Jesus. As we...
To preach about politics or not to preach about politics—that is a question many pastors are now asking with urgency. Those who say we should preach about politics often reference 20th c. German theologian Karl Barth, who said that preachers should hold a Bible in one...