If you’ve never doubted, you’ve only half-believed. Faith has never been easy, and doubts are not your enemy.  Pretending is.  Hear that again:  Doubts are not your enemy.  Pretending is. If we’ve never doubted, if we’ve never wrestled with issues of faith, our belief is about as deep as a rain puddle.  But when we Read the full article…

Yesterday, November 30, 2015, was a normal Monday in ministry.  I’ve been through more than a thousand such Mondays in my years of full-time ministry. Yet if you read between the lines, look beneath the covers, and wash behind your ears . . . you can see some pretty good things that happened.  Here are Read the full article…

Here’s why I liked what we got to do yesterday: 1.  We had a Campaign that had nothing to do with pledging money and everything to do with pledging prayer time; and 2.  We rescued Psalm 46:10a from its Hallmark card safety and repositioned it dangerously into the context of Psalm 46; and 3.  As a Read the full article…

Inspired by Fred Craddock, involving an Operation Christmas Child Radical Impact Project, including a stellar sermon from my friend and colleague Devin Tharp, Only Human has been one of my favorite series. And now it culminates on Sunday with “Human Racing,” a message which, admittedly, had a title before it had a text. (Preachers will Read the full article…

The hymn Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing has this puzzling line: “Here I raise mine Ebenezer, hither by thy help I’m come . . .” What in the world is an Ebenezer? And how do you raise it? An Ebenezer stone comes from I Samuel 7:12 where the prophet raises a large stone to Read the full article…