Whether or not anyone has noticed, my corner of the blogosphere has been eerily silent for almost two years. Sometimes, of course, we are silent for a reason. Other times, we have much we wish to say but don’t find the time or the words to say it. Still other times, like the one I’ve […]
A Book That Should Be Widely Read
Called to Be Human: Letters to My Children on Living a Christian Life, by Michael Jinkins. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2009. ISBN 978-0-8028-6300-3. (Reviewed by John P. Leggett.) When his children were baptized, Michael Jinkins promised that he would live the Christian faith in his own life. He also promised to […]
Waiting for Christmas
As a child I remember counting down the days as Christmas drew nearer. It seemed as if the day would never arrive. Knowing that Christmas morning meant family, gifts, and the family tradition of hot cross buns, I couldn’t wait for that joyous day to arrive. It was a day to celebrate the birth of […]
Advent Longing
Romans 13:11—“Besides this, you know what time it is, how it is now the moment for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we became believers; the night is far gone, the day is near.” Beth Nielsen Chapman wrote a song that begins this way: All alone I […]
The Rest of the Story
My sermon this past Sunday was the second in a series of seven from the book of Proverbs. I was preaching from the first chapter of Proverbs, where the parent is giving some instructions in wisdom to the child who is about to leave home. Here’s how I set up and told a story from […]
While I Was Away
OK, so it’s been a while since my last post. I had big plans to keep writing while away from home, including vividly exciting details about traveling with three young children to exotic destinations–like the in-laws’ house and Montreat. But shortly before my first post, I came across this story that made me rethink that […]