No! A word that not many of us if any, likes to hear.  No is a much needed word and unstinting it’s meaning and utility is a necessity if we are going to live the highest and best life possible. That is why I’m calling this installment the “Necessity of NO” No is one of […]

I had the great honor and privilege of preaching my friends funeral His name in Larry Green. Larry went home to be with His Lord on April 6th, 2017 and is enjoying the presence of the one he loved and served.  Left behind were those who loved him and those whom he loved, Larry was […]

I’m looking out of my home office window as the leaves are falling off of this huge Bradford Pear tree Thanksgiving is over and Christmas is just a few days away.  I have this question that has been banging around in my head for weeks now but if I’m honest years and just now I […]

“IF.”  Such an incredible strong word.  It can leave you feeling great regret or it can fill you with hope. How many of us have said, “If only I had” and you can fill in the blank________________. “If only,” has some cousins named “coulda, woulda, and shoulda” and these are horrible people to live with […]

It was a good day this past Sunday, the church is filling up again after the summertime slump. Sometime during the summer a pastor wonders if he has a church left because so many are out doing other things but, thats just a pastor thing.  I thought I had preached a good message and the […]

I have a thing for survival shows I like them. The idea of survival under harsh or impossible circumstances fascinates me.  I often marvel at the will to live when faced with a life and death situation, why do some live and others die in the same situations? When the seemly strong fail to live […]

How can I be successful in business? A young man struggling in his first year of business asked me that a couple of weeks ago. My answer was not complicated, Not that I’m that smart, Its just that it is simple, but difficult. Before I give you my answer let me put it in context:  James […]

I was reading my morning devotion today when the Lord asked me a question? Before you think I’ve lost my mind (too late) God speaks to me through His word and he will do the same for you. Anyway here is what stuck. Isaiah 49:6 (NIV) 6  he says: “It is too small a thing […]

“Something is different about you,” she said. The comment caught me a little off guard, because when you are a pastor and you just finished preaching you never know what is on the other side of that comment. She continued “You were spiritual before you got sick but now you are so much better.” Before […]

“Something is different about you,” she said.  The comment caught me a little off guard, because when you are a pastor and you just finished preaching you never know what is on the other side of that comment. She continued “ You were spiritual before you got sick but now you are so much better” […]