So today is the day that Crash Test Dummies drops. Releases. Publishes. Whatever. It's book #5 (whoda thunk?) and I hope my Charlotte area friends can make it to the Book Launch Event tonight from 7-9 pm at RiverGate Shopping Center's Art Space Studio. Yet...
Like father, like son. In the worst sense of the word. That's what Week 3 of Where Apples Fall featured, with a close look at one of the top five "ick" stories in Scripture: the "meet my sister" pattern that Abraham starts and passes on to Isaac. After that noxious...
In the message for this upcoming Sunday, you'll get ... references to Brattonsville and Brittany Spears; a video about walking you'll have to see to believe; a close exploration of one of the Top Five ICK Stories in the bible. All in all, it will lead to Falling Too...
This past week I was Facebook-tagged in this photo below. I have no memory -- zip, zero, nada -- of it being taken. But I know the year: 1978. I know my age: 16 (Hey! Hold on to 16 as long as you can, right?!). I know the place: the steps of the T Bar M racket...
Years ago, I had a District Superintendent in the United Methodist Church -- a position which functions, more or less, as a pastor to the pastors -- tell a group of us assembled clergy: "When you want to get the last word in . . . don't." And I was thinking, "But I...
In the wake of Harvey and Irma, and in anticipation of Jose and Katia, today seems like an appropriate time to take stock of the storm stories that dot the biblical landscape. And seascape, for that matter. Here are my five favorite: Jesus' contrast of the wise and...
Yesterday's message ... Referenced Julie's career in the health care industry; Spoke openly regarding the fact that most of us are motivated by forces about which we are unaware; Described Genesis 25-50 as a "mini-series"; Arrived at this bottom line: The wounds you...
The Where Apples Fall series is designed to reinforce our core value that faith starts at home. It's not like faith starts at church and you hope to bring it from church to your house; it's the reverse: it starts at home and gets a weekly tuneup at church. All that...
We preachers spend a lot of time and energy trying to bring life to our sermons through what have historically been called illustrations. Donald Grey Barnhouse, longtime pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, compiled the most famous collection of such...
A friend of mine is reading an early copy of Crash Test Dummies. Late last week, he sent me a text that said excitedly, "The prayer on page 41 of the book reminds me of that pastor who said that the biblical view of heaven is a white supremacist's worst nightmare!" I...