Posts in category For the Heart

For all of our married life, my wife, Paula, and I have been in ministry of one sort or another. Everything changed for us as …

A recent conversation caught me breathless and deeply burdened for my neighbors. A street vendor I regularly buy vegetables from surveyed all of the uncertainties …

At the outset of the present quarantine, everything was bizarre, electric, and controversial. People filled their time arguing over lethality, R₀ rates, and balancing lives …

“These are the times that try men’s souls…” the well-known words of poet Thomas Payne came to mind as I drove to the grocery store …

You’re a pastor and church is now cancelled for the foreseeable future. The US Treasury Secretary, Steve Mnuchin just went on record that we should …

I, like you, am tired of thinking about COVID-19 already, though my browsing history might betray me. I’ll abstain from taking a side on whether …

It was Sunday, August 5, 2018. The church service was beginning. The hymn number had been announced and I was standing next to my wife as the congregation began to sing. I could not sing. Not a sound. Not even a whisper. I wept.

The Late Show is hardly a bellwether for the state of America’s philosophizing or the condition of its soul. Except when it is. Several cultural …

My lingering trial, like any other trial we go through, has created some soul searching questions. Questions can be a good thing because asking the …

One of the greatest responsibilities I have as a pastor is to prepare my people for suffering. Hardships are the norm, not the exception, in …