Is there an abundance of God’s wisdom sayings treasured up in your heart? Have you prayerfully looked to share them?...  Read More

Black-and-white thinking makes us uncomfortable. Maybe even nervous. Even more so living in a culture where 50 (or more) shades of gray are so acceptable to so many. Then we run into Proverbs and t...  Read More

If you were to count as you read through Proverbs, you’d discover that fearing the Lord is mentioned at least 20 times. For this wisest of kings (i.e., Solomon), fearing the Lord was a matter not to ...  Read More

Ask yourself: “If I had to stand before God today, would he see me as righteous?” If so, for what reason?...  Read More

Listening to Scripture – indeed if we will regularly – reminds us that God has made wisdom abundantly available, and free! The Holy Spirit moves James to write “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him as...  Read More

There’s little doubt that one of our country’s (i.e., the United States of America) main struggles has to do with that word “united.” Today, our name feels like a misnomer. We are a remarkably polar...  Read More

Greatness as serving? Greatness as giving up your own life for another? Greatness is freely paying an expensive ransom so that someone “less than you” can be rescued....  Read More

Reading Mark’s gospel, one realizes that Jesus’ original disciples seemed at times to be quite hard-of-hearing. What kept them from learning well from Jesus’ example, and hearing well Jesus’ teaching...  Read More

Church membership in our country has hit a new, all-time low. Over the past two decades, the number of Americans who refuse to identify when any faith or religion has grown from 8% (2000) to 13% (in...  Read More

Still, digesting a sermon without getting a stomach ache can be difficult. One of my seminary preaching professors once remarked (tongue-in-cheek, as I recall), “I’ve listened to 7,000 sermons in the...  Read More

No one you know was more resistant to Jesus the Messiah than Saul of Tarsus. Anyone you know can be redeemed. . . . Why not take an evening dinner hour with your spouse (and your kids or grandkids) a...  Read More

Pamela and I moved to Ames, Iowa from Greeley, Colorado in late summer of 1993. Briana (4th grade) and Cameron (6th grade), two large dogs (Champ and Tipper), and a loaded U-Haul all in tow. Just a co...  Read More