It always happens. Every week. On my way home from teaching on Sundays, I inevitably remember something I wanted to include in the message. Oh, I hit the points I wanted to planned to make. These are the extra things that I think of on Sunday morning, while visiting in the lobby, or during the worship portion, or even while I’m preaching that would bring more clarity or color to the main points. But somewhere from the pew to pulpit, I forget.  And, true to form, it happened a

Want to hear a lame joke? Sure you do! (But don't say you weren't warned.) After a storm a guy had a bunch of trees in his yard. His neighbor told him he ought to get a chainsaw to make cleanup easier, so he went to the hardware store and bought the biggest one they had. He shows back up at the hardware store the next day and complains that there’s something wrong with the chainsaw, saying it took him over two hours to cut through one branch. The store owner grabs the saw, pu

In Greek Mythology, Prince Paris of Troy carries off the Greek Princess Helen back to Troy. The Greek king sends an expeditionary force to sail to Troy to bring her back. But the navy was held up because the wind wouldn’t cooperate. The Greek general Agamemnon sent home for his daughter Iphigenia and sacrificed her to gain the favor of the gods. The move paid off – the winds blew and the fleet reached Troy to begin the war. While that story is a myth, it is, like many myths,

When Leann and I first started dating in high school it wasn’t long before we wanted to spend more and more time together, but she had friends she did things with and I had mine that I still hung out with and so our relationship was limited to the occasional date and seeing each other at school.  However, it wasn’t long until we got more serious and exclusivity set in. Instead of doing stuff on the weekend with my buddies I started wanting to be at her house as much as I coul

It's well-known at South Jeff that I grew up in the church. Parents who had our family in church every time the doors were open; countless weeks of church camp as camper, then faculty, then dean; multiple weeks of VBS every summer (my relationship with the girl who eventually became my wife started at a VBS); Bible college, conferences, workshops, revivals, Bible studies, and on and on. So I was around Christians All. The. Time. And really, I'm thankful to God for that life.

I stumbled on a story about a missionary named Don Richardson. In 1962 he, his wife, and new baby went to New Guinea and serve as...

Last week I watched podcaster Joe Rogan’s interview with Navy Seal Andy Stumpf. Stumpf discusses (in frightening detail) what it’s like...

If the over 150 funerals I’ve done are any indication, there is no need to preach the gospel anymore because apparently, everybody is a...

So it was that last week I found myself in a tire shop, sentenced to waiting-room jail with bad coffee and a TV apparently salvaged from...

During the mid-4th century AD, a western-Asian peoples called the “Huns” became a serious threat to the eastern Roman Empire. Their...

Matthew 6:24-35 Years ago, our family planned a trip to Florida and one of the things we wanted to do was get some good seafood. So, I...