Faith column

I'm sure you're familiar with the conclusion drawn by many that time speeds by faster as we get older. So I was thinking, did this happen to me during these past 40 days of Lent and during Holy Week that ended just the other day? Did time indeed speed up as I busied myself with the...

A trip to the Holy Land changes everything. Walking, praying and standing in the places where Jesus walked, prayed, taught and ministered brings the whole Bible to life in an incredible way. In the Old City of Jerusalem stands the enormous Church of the Holy Sepulcher (sepulcher means...

Your heart is a muscle; it has four chambers, roughly repeated twice - a right and left atrium, a right and left ventricle. Blood from your body enters the right atrium and moves through the tricuspid valve into your right ventricle. There the blood moves through the pulmonary valve...

Dear friends, I was going about my day last Wednesday, leading Bible study in the morning, making a home visit and preparing for our Ash Wednesday service that evening at church. As I was driving back to church from the home visit I heard the reports about the school shooting in Florida....

Transcendent truths are those unaffected by time or space. They define the world, but are not defined by the world. World views are made up of transcendent truths; things we believe are true before we question whether or not anything else is true. An example of a transcendent truth...

"Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life" (Proverbs 13:12). As many of you know, the Super Bowl is this Sunday. And as many of you know, the Vikings are not in it ... again. We had hope again that they would be in the big game and possibly even...

Greetings to all! February is soon upon us and it is in that month when we are reminded about love. Valentine's Day is a day full of love, flowers, cards, candy and other gifts that are given to show that special someone how much we care about them. It is definitely a very important...

During my time in seminary, part of our formation was to spend three weeks in the Holy Land, visiting the historical sites where Jesus Christ - God himself - was born, grew up, healed, preached, suffered, died and rose again. Our tour group time in Bethlehem was short, so during free...

Greetings and happy November to you all! "Now thank we all our God, with heart and hands and voices, who wondrous things has done, in whom this world rejoices; who from our mothers' arms has blessed us on our way with countless gifts of love, and still is ours today. "O may this...

The other day while sitting in my daughter's apartment I noticed a plaque on the wall quoting a psalm that reminds us that there is always hope if we keep our eyes upon our Lord God, Jesus. As I considered the psalmist's words I had hope that my daughter in the midst of her life would...

We live in an age of instant responses and information overload. Rarely do we stop to consider the weight and impact of our words. News headlines are designed to catch our attention even if this requires stretching the truth. Consider the value of the following words. The first is...

I am compelled to share this incredible story with you because after you read it you may say, "It seems impossible, it can't be true." Yet what I talk about may be something that you often eat, but you never realized the process it went through for it to finally be delicious enough...

Truth, and the definition of truth, is under attack. "There is no absolute truth," is the claim the world is making. "All truth is relative" and "The truth is what you want it to be" are popular current themes. If we can be honest for a moment and recognize just how sad and depraved...

I've just come back from a pilgrimage of sorts. I spent a week in June in Wittenberg, Germany, the place where Martin Luther spent his life from 1508. On this journey, I was able to walk the streets that Luther walked, walk the corridors of his former monastery that would become his...

I love seeing how He gives each of His churches a unique vision and calling. Even churches of the same denomination vary from one another, yet each is passionately pursuing the things God has called them to be and do. I recently did a sermon series entitled "Heartbeats" focusing on...