Blog Posts

  • Pastors and Politics

    It was probably back in the early 2000’s during a trip to Michigan when I picked up the Ann Arbor News and found an opinion piece written by a local pastor about politics and the pulpit. Ann Arbor, home of U of M, is a bastion of liberal politics, so I was curious what this…

  • Hamiltonian Wisdom: Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton

    My wife suggested that I watch Hamilton when it became available to stream on Disney+, but just as I was about to start it I realized that I was potentially in danger of ruining a good book (think of the poor wretch who watched the movie Jurassic Park before reading the book!), so I grabbed…

  • Monday Morning Productivity Reminders

    Every Monday morning I understand what it must be like to be my child when I tell them, “Go clean up the toy room.” Basically, their heads explode with the enormity of their task. Sure, they made the mess, but they feel that this Herculean labor is beyond the reach of mortals. And that’s how…

  • After the Flood

    Text: 2 Peter 3 cf Genesis 6-9 Foundational Truth: Cataclysmic changes during man’s early history altered much of the created world, but the essential truths about man himself remain unchanged. Introduction On Friday we commemorated 19 years since the terrorist attacks on our country claimed the lives of 2,977 people. Some of the younger people…

  • What You See in Ministry

    The human eye is one of the greatest wonders of all of God’s creation. Think about how superior vision is to photography. It takes a really skilled photographer to capture a landscape, and a large part of that is deciding what to leave out. The human eye is capable of taking in so much more,…