Everything’s OK.  God is in charge.
That’s a comforting thought, isn’t it?  Ultimately, how life turns out and even how today turns out is not up to me.  (But don’t take that too far – see below.)
What’s sad is that Christians can even turn a comforting truth like the sovereignty of God into a reason to [...]

I wondered if I should write an original poem to plumb the depths of Paul’s praise of Jesus Christ.  The thought is frightening because I am no poet.

Sometimes (more often than you might think), preachers are challenged to apply their own sermons by personal circumstances.  Thus it was last week with our daughter Cara’s brush with death.  It happened on Friday, between my two primary sermon preparation days.

“Praying for WIGs” (Colossians 1:9-14), May 3, 2009
Very rarely does anyone ask me to pray for what Paul apparently considers “wildly important.”  He prays strategically for those areas which, if they are not in place, render everything else inconsequential.