Yesterday's message ... Embodied no little bit of irony.  Two days before the official release of "Simplify The Message; Multiply The Impact," a book for all practical purposes on designing and delivering one point sermons, my sermon yesterday featured four ......

My love language is Words Of Affirmation. (If you don’t understand that reference, check out Gary Chapman’s The Five Love Languages where you’ll see that all of us speak & receive love through one of the following: physical touch, quality time, acts of service,...

I still remember a conversation that, paradoxically, led me into full-time ministry. I was 24 at the time, and working at the Princeton, New Jersey office of the United States Tennis Association. As part of my duties, I gave presentations to physical educators,...

Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes is one of the most portrayed characters in the history of fiction, film, and stage. Doyle’s four novels and fifty-six short stories involving Scotland Yard’s favorite sleuth have multiplied into hundreds of movies, television...

Yesterday's message ... Had a moment of crisis at the 8:30 service when I brought the WRONG BIBLE into the Worship Center.  By "wrong bible" I mean the one without the Scripture printed in TWENTY-TWO point font and taped into it so I can read it easily while...

It's Friday and I'm already pretty keyed up for Sunday. Why? Because we get to look at what is at the same time THE MOST BEAUTIFUL and LEAST FOLLOWED verse in Scripture. Huh? To see what I mean -- and to know the Scripture in question -- it's Sunday. 8:30, 10, 11:30...

Many moons ago, I had a chance encounter with the late Ben Haden, a Chattanooga-based pastor with the Presbyterian Church of America who enjoyed a measure of fame with the television ministry Changed Lives. Our conversation was on the bucolic grounds of...

When I was fourteen, my parents and my older brother Clayton (he is number seven out of eight, and I round it out taking the eighth place) and I spent a semester in Australia. My father was nearing the end of his career as a member of the faculty in the School of Law...

A lot of you know this, but here goes: I am the eighth of eight children. No blending. All biological. All Davis, all the time. I am also quite a bit younger than the rest, as #1 was 23 when I was born and #7 was seven. He (#7) went off to college when I was 12, which...

Yesterday's message ... Included some talk about PTSD; Concluded with a photo of a Scripture sign our daughter had made while in middle school; Involved the testimony of a man who had died just this past week; Landed at this bottom line:  You'll only have peace in...