As the Nooks & Crannies series nears its conclusion, these reflections on marriage and family from Anna Quindlen's memoir Lots Of Candles, Plenty Of Cake bear repeating:   If a marriage is to endure over time, it has to be because both people within it have...

One day last week, I went to the home of a family in the church to see how the man of the house was holding up after shoulder surgery. No crisis, no drama, no life-and-death; instead, an opportunity to get to know some folks beyond "hey, how's it going?" on a Sunday...

This past Friday, Julie and I went to the Fillmore, Charlotte to see a Led Zeppelin cover band called Zoso. I consider this payback for the two Jack Wagner concerts Julie made me attend with her in the 1980s.  Actually, I probably still have some payback built up from...

After years of keeping my distance from the opening chapters of Genesis, I am now firmly in love with them. I'd never really known what to do with stories like Adam & Eve in the garden, Cain & Abel in the field, and the Lord himself as both a tailor of leather...

So will she show up on Sunday?   Not likely, But we will take a different look at love in the nooks and crannies of our households. We'll see how the concept of love has been misinterpreted and misused from the very beginning of time. And I mean the very...

From the vault, circa 2012 . . .   Many of you are familiar with the Romans Road, a collection of verses from that signature New Testament book designed to lead people on the “road” to salvation. It starts out with our Problem from Romans 3:23:       For all have...

I have learned something recently that I think is worth sharing: What you listen to when you drive to work affects your mood when you get there. Now: I don’t have a long drive to work in the morning.  But for years, I have been listening to sports talk radio for my...

You know the drill. Member of rock band gets big head, thinks he is bigger than the band that made him, and strikes out on his own. Only to come back five years (and few albums sales) later, tail between his legs, asking for the band to take him back. Yet every so...

The Back When Cain Was Able sermon was delayed a week by our need to address Charlotte's State Of Emergency a week earlier. So, according to the calendar it was the third week of Nooks & Crannies, but according to life, it was the second. It was a passage I loved...

So it got interrupted. It's still really good. I can honestly say that studying for and then preparing this message was as much fun as I have had in a long, long time. And here's why:  so often when we read the bible -- the early part of Genesis in particular -- we...