Men: Sing!

Men: Sing!

Men, as you go to worship today, please consider the following: SING. If you’ll sing the national anthem, or belt out Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin'” in the car, lift up your voice to the Lord. I know you can sing. I have heard men sing the various...
Three Favorites of 2023

Three Favorites of 2023

I love books. This love of reading was fostered by my late father who used to take me each Saturday morning to wander through the aisles and load up on books. This was long before the days of the coffee-shop bookstore giants like Barnes and Noble. We would split-up...
Stability in Unstable Times

Stability in Unstable Times

John Stott says, “Let the devil mount his fiercest attack on the feeblest saint, let the anti-Christ be revealed and the rebellion break out, yet over against the instability of our circumstances and characters, we set the eternal stability on the purpose of...
Hope for Troubled Hearts

Hope for Troubled Hearts

One morning as I sipped my coffee, I scrolled through the news stories on my laptop.  Most of the storis were the usual procession of one unbelievably bad story after another.  Much of it shocking.  I felt a tightening in my chest,...
Hope for Anglicans and Anglicanism

Hope for Anglicans and Anglicanism

Who am I? In the musical adaptation of Les Miserables, there is a poignant scene with the protagonist, Jean Valjean. The former convict, now freed, is trying to come to grips with his past and the potential of his future. In a case of mistaken identity,...