Thomas Andrew Dorsey was a black jazz musician from Atlanta. In the 1920s he became somewhat famous as a composer of jazz tunes with suggestive lyrics, but he gave all that up in 1926 to concentrate solely on spiritual music. One of his most famous tunes was a song called “Peace in the Valley.” But [...]
The 15th chapter of Luke is my favorite in all the gospels…the lost sheep, the lost coin, the lost son. I read recently that we almost always miss the point of the lost sheep story because of this image we carry around in our heads of the good shepherd carrying a fluffy little lamb.
Well, [...]
I heard something on the evening news the other night that’s been gnawing on me all week…every day and every night. There are 800 million chronically hungry people in our world. Listen to me…800 million people who go to bed hungry every night of their lives. 24,000 starve to death every single day. Every 7 [...]
Here is part of today’s devotional reading from the daily lectionary. Can you guess who or what the author is talking about? You weigh in, I’ll tell you if you are correct!
Proverbs 8:22-36
[22] The Lord created me at the beginning* of his work,* the first
of his acts of long ago. [23] Ages ago I was [...]
Hi all…just wanted you to know that this blog is read by as many as 300 people a day, and occasionally jumps up to 700! However, my intention in beginning this was to spur dialogue, rather than simply be a daily monologue (some people would say ”rant”).
So…let me encourage you to make comments on the blog! I’m [...]
Saved! We hear the word all the time. Preachers use it in their sermons. Laypeople often use it when witnessing to their friends and neighbors. Radio preachers, especially, are always shouting at people that they need to “get saved.” It seems that nearly everybody uses the term, but not everybody who uses it knows what it [...]
I want to do a little bragging today…not on myself, but on a husband and wife who are part of my Disciple Bible Study class. Ben and Amanda are newlyweds, married for only a couple of years now. Last September, they made a commitment to doing Disciple together — 34 weeks of intensive Bible study…every [...]
When I was a student at Duke, my preaching professor was Richard Lischer. In his most recent book, Open Secrets, he tells the story of his early years as a Lutheran preacher. I was struck by something he wrote about his mother…”in the context of our family prayers, her stories helped me understand what God [...]
Did you ever notice how easy it is to give up the outward and obvious sins like lying, cheating, stealing, cursing, only to turn to the more subtle ones, the inward, hidden kind, like back‑biting, a critical attitude, gossip, or being judgmental. Those are sins too, and often more destructive than the more outward kind, because they [...]
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