Bridegroom of Blood In Westminster’s summer sermon series we are looking at the life of Moses. Of course, when anyone hears that theme, c...

Me and my mouth. Studies regularly show that for a great many people, public speaking is their greatest fear. For some, death would be pr...

With each excuse, we get a little closer to the heart of the matter. After Moses exclaims “Who am I?!” (Ex. 3:11) and “Who are you?!” (3:...

ELYEH ASHER ELYEH In Exodus 3, God tells Moses that he is God’s chosen instrument by which He (God) will free the Israelite people from s...

"WHO AM I?" On Sunday, I preached on the five excuses or protestations Moses makes in Exodus 3-4, and God’s responses to them. Each is a ...

Today is “Juneteenth,” a commemoration of the day in 1865 when Union army general Gordon Granger announced federal orders in Galveston, T...

Detours Moses' life was shaped by his detour to Midian. How time flies. Moses’ sojourn in Midian, 40 years summarized by “during that lon...

Andrew preached an excellent message yesterday on Moses’ flight to Midian. If those words – “flight to Midian” – bring to mind Moses wait...

You can tell a lot from the opening lines of a story. For example: · “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” (Great Expect...

On this 76th anniversary of the epic D-Day landing, it's worth asking what kind of life is worth living, worth fighting for. Let's look b...

Maybe like you, I have had a knot in my stomach lately as I see and hear our national and personal discourse. It feels like a volcano bui...

To any regular readers (which is a little presumptuous) – sorry for the gap in blog posts over the last couple of weeks. I’ve had a littl...

I’ve missed a few days of my blog this week, but ever since Thursday I’ve been thinking again about an important but often overlooked day...

For Everything a Season Consider what the writer of Ecclesiastes wrote: For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under...

The Nudge Her name was Shannon. She was a junior when I was a sophomore in high school. She was good-looking and popular – two things I w...

Seven years ago this month, our family moved from a house that seemed too big for us into a house that seems increasingly too small for u...

Detachment – part 1 In my own reading and thinking lately,* I’ve been struck by the theme of detachment and how essential it is to a heal...

Clean Teeth & Cupcakes I often say, as do many others, that we don’t know whether God causes bad things to happen, or simply allows them ...

About Time For me, one of the strangest and most difficult parts of the Coronavirus experience we are living through has to do with time....

The Body One of the oldest heresies to challenge early Christianity was called Gnosticism. It held that God’s truth was available only to...