I recently attended a retreat on how to communicate effectively across four generations. Because people are living longer than ever, it is not uncommon to find four generations in the work place. The four generations are the Traditionalists, the...
To state the obvious, raising kids is not easy. It requires more patience than I can ever muster. It also requires unending diligence and long suffering. Even the smallest bit of neglect in childrearing has consequences. It’s a complete...
You can tell how important something is to God by how often it’s talked about in the Bible. Familiar themes that reoccur in the Bible include love, grace, mercy, justice, kindness, the power of God, sin in humanity, and salvation. One...
There is an interesting story in John 12 that tells about a woman named Mary who anoints Jesus one week before his crucifixion. The story says that Mary pours expensive perfume on Jesus’s feet (and other versions of the story include...
I’m a terrible golfer, but I go golfing anyway. Occasionally I’ll even go golfing alone, which I enjoy. When golfing alone, I’ll often get paired up with other players to speed up the pace of play when the course is crowded...
Mardi Gras is a big deal in Haiti. Mardi Gras, in French means “Fat (gras) Tuesday (mardi)”. Fat Tuesday is always celebrated the day before Ash Wednesday which is the start of the Lenten season. The Lenten season is the seven-week...
I’m a stress eater. When things in life and ministry are crazy, when I feel like I’m losing control at work or at home, I eat. It makes me feel better. I makes me feel better because when I can’t exercise control in other...
Have you ever noticed that there is a pattern to the kinds of conditions and illnesses that Jesus heals in the New Testament? For example, on more than one occasion Jesus heals leprosy (Matt 8:1–4, Mark 1:40–45, and Luke 5:12–16), paralysis (Mark...
It’s really hard to be courteous to everyone always. Actually, it seems impossible. Not long ago I wrote a Saturday Sermon about a text in the New Testament that commands Christians to be courteous to all people (Titus 3:2). I wrote...
“…love apart from holiness is soft, naively wishful, and likely self-indulgent. Holiness apart from love is a consuming fire. And so with respect to the first half of Wesley’s orienting concern for holiness and grace, holiness itself is...