Westminster ChurchJul 9, 20203 minThriving Devotional - July 9, 2020Bridegroom of Blood In Westminster’s summer sermon series we are looking at the life of Moses. Of course, when anyone hears that theme, c...
Westminster ChurchJul 2, 20202 minThriving Devotional - July 2, 2020Me and my mouth. Studies regularly show that for a great many people, public speaking is their greatest fear. For some, death would be pr...
Westminster ChurchJul 1, 20202 minThriving Devotional - July 1, 2020With 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:...
Westminster ChurchJun 30, 20202 minThriving Devotional - June 30, 2020ELYEH 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...
Westminster ChurchJun 29, 20202 minThriving Devotional - June 29, 2020"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 ...
Westminster ChurchJun 19, 20202 minThriving Devotional - June 19, 2020Today is “Juneteenth,” a commemoration of the day in 1865 when Union army general Gordon Granger announced federal orders in Galveston, T...
Westminster ChurchJun 18, 20202 minThriving Devotional - June 17, 2020Detours Moses' life was shaped by his detour to Midian. How time flies. Moses’ sojourn in Midian, 40 years summarized by “during that lon...
Westminster ChurchJun 15, 20202 minThriving Devotional - June 15, 2020Andrew preached an excellent message yesterday on Moses’ flight to Midian. If those words – “flight to Midian” – bring to mind Moses wait...
Westminster ChurchJun 10, 20203 minThriving Devotional - June 10, 2020You 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...
Westminster ChurchJun 6, 20203 minThriving Devotional - June 6, 2020On 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...
Westminster ChurchJun 5, 20202 minThriving Devotional - June 5, 2020Maybe 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...
Westminster ChurchJun 2, 20202 minThriving Devotional - June 2, 2020To 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...
Westminster ChurchMay 24, 20203 minThriving Devotional - May 24, 2020I’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...
Westminster ChurchMay 21, 20202 minThriving Devotional - May 21, 2020For Everything a Season Consider what the writer of Ecclesiastes wrote: For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under...
Westminster ChurchMay 21, 20202 minThriving Devotional - May 20, 2020The 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...
Westminster ChurchMay 16, 20202 minThriving Devotional - May 16, 2020Seven 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...
Westminster ChurchMay 14, 20202 minThriving Devotional - May 15, 2020Detachment – 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...
Westminster ChurchMay 12, 20203 minThriving Devotional - May 12, 2020Clean 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 ...
Westminster ChurchMay 11, 20202 minThriving Devotional - May 11, 2020About Time For me, one of the strangest and most difficult parts of the Coronavirus experience we are living through has to do with time....
Westminster ChurchMay 7, 20202 minThriving Devotional - May 7, 2020The Body One of the oldest heresies to challenge early Christianity was called Gnosticism. It held that God’s truth was available only to...