Ian Morgan Cron says it well: “We need a God-initiated solution to heal the wounds that are driving our addictions and all-too-predictable self-sabatoging behaviors.” Apart from yesterday, the past several days’ series of reflections here are becoming what I’m thinking…

From what I sent to a clergy group earlier today. May it help us in the living out of our Christian faith today — Charles Wesley wrote these lyrics — 1 And are we yet alive,and see each other’s face?Glory…

Long ago and far away, it fell to me as the host pastor to co-officiate at what we United Methodists now know as A Service of Death and Resurrection. I was liturgist. A far more esteemed colleague was the preacher…

I want to, but I don’t. That’s Scripture. That’s a confession.That’s from Romans 7:19-23. Check it out. I want to, but I don’t is how the RDSV puts it. Find Romans 7:19-23 in whatever version you prefer and try it…

Son LJ4 said it well last month in a FaceTime convo we had while he was waiting for a bus, and I share this with you here with his graciously expressed permission — We all have things to work on.…

FROM 02.18.25 — With his graciously expressed permission, I share what friend and colleague Monty Weatherall wrote earlier today —– The church has become a laughing stock, a place to be mocked. A once-pillar in our community has been reduced…

Long ago and oh so far away, I had the opportunity spend a weekend at Princeton Seminary. In the course of conversation over dinner with the President, at one point or another he asked each of us the same question,…

God grant me the serenityto accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; enjoying one moment at a time; accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; taking, as…

“God’s grace will mess up your religion” is a take-away I got from Tullian Tchividjian. For by grace you have been saved through faith, says Ephesians 2:8. But wait! There’s even more to to that Scripture: And this is not…

Lord, my mind continues to race with possibilities with no answers. I cannot seem to direct my mind in the right direction. Please help me to think of You so that I can have peace. Please, Lord, deliver me from…