WORSHIP

Let me just look at you for a minute. Let me just enjoy seeing you all gathered here inside these familiar walls, on these familiar pews,...

Today’s Gospel lesson is full of some of the hardest teachings in the Bible: Turn the other cheek Give more than what is sued for Go the...

An old saying goes, “If you give someone a fish they eat for a day. If you teach someone to fish they eat for a lifetime.” There is a lot...

Moses met the living God in the burning bush and in the devouring fire on top of Mount Sinai, and both times, it changed him. The first...

I want to start by giving you some literary and geographical context for the Sermon on the Mount, which is contained in chapters 5, 6,...

Take a moment to think about your blessings, to count your blessings, as the saying goes. You might even jot them down in the margins of...

“You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee the wrath that is to come?” John showed up in the wilderness preaching hellfire and...

Each year the Oxford English Dictionary issues its “word of the year,” the word or phrase that best encapsulates the mood or concerns of...

What brings you joy at Christmas? Being with family? Enjoying the delight of children as they anticipate visits with Santa and their...

Among the most accomplished and fabled tribes of Africa, no tribe was considered to have warriors more fearsome or more intelligent than...

By rights, Mary should have been executed. If a man takes a woman for his wife and discovers that she is not a virgin “she shall be...

It was called “The Blizzard of 1996.” It was the worst nor’easter snowstorm to hit the East Coast in decades. It hit Virginia, West...

Are you a “wrestler” or a “rester”? Are you the sort of person who is constantly wrestling with God, struggling to work out your faith...

I never had much use for the Rapture. I think it’s bad exegesis, bad theology, and bad Christology. So all those years ago when the Left...

When Jesus left Nazareth, where his parents lived, he “made his home in Capernaum by the sea” (Matt 4:13). When Chris and I stepped off...

Those of you who worship regularly at Butner Presbyterian Church know that I occasionally ask the congregation to participate in the...

I want you to forget about life after life, put it right out of your mind and do not give it another thought. Don’t get me wrong: I...

Back in the summer of 2013, like so many thousands of men, women, youth, and children who were fed up with certain actions being taken by...

If you can imagine a map of Israel, you might close your eyes and see the small Sea of Galilee in the North feeding into the Jordan river...

“Recalling your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy.” Can you recall a time when you were so discouraged that you...