Missing the Point
An email was sent to me by a family member. I am constantly on the lookout for stories to use for sermon illustrations and I anticipated this would be another inspiring story to add to my collection. The title was […]
Mike Tucker
Seeing the Future
In 1981, a rather prophetic lecture was given at the University of Notre Dame that predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union. The lecturer called Communism “a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being […]
He Belongs to the Ages
You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father […]
Be Still
John Killinger, in “Finding God in a Busy World,” writes: I thought about this text [Ps 46:10] some months ago as I sat in Sacre-Coeur, a church built atop Montmartre, a high hill overlooking the city of Paris. This marvelous […]
As He Loved The Church…
“Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church” For most of us, the first thing that comes to mind when we think of Christ’s love for the church is the fact that he died for us. The thing is, […]
Valuable Stone
It has been said that one man’s treasure is another man’s trash. As long as men remain the ultimate authority on which is treasure and trash, disagreements will continue. However, there is one who never overlooks anything of value. Too […]
The Existence of God and Pain
How do you expect me to believe in God,” asked Woody Allen, “when only last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of my electric type-writer?” For a while now, at least in the Western world, the existence […]
My Favorite Bible Verse
Eons ago, when I was in college, I was struggling. Having been raised in a fairly legalistic home and church I struggled with assurance of eternal life. I also was confused about what God wanted me to do for a […]
A Faith Unobscured
At a funeral service in 1742, two giants of the Christian faith stood beside their mother’s grave. John Wesley conducted the services; his brother Charles wrote the epitaph for the tombstone. In part, it read: A Christian here her flesh […]
Hold Me
Some years ago I preached a sermon series from the book of Exodus titled, “Deliverance”. I find in the Exodus story a metaphor for the way God delivers us from every evil that Satan uses to entrap us. Pastor and […]
