Baseball, Patience, and Failure
Looking at the stats of hitters and pitchers in the Major Leagues reveals the startling truth that baseball players, all of them, fail much more than they succeed. In fact, the best players are the ones who fail slightly less than the other players. For example to get a hit 3 out of 10 at bats is [...]
Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)
When Christians get together for worship, and their music director is perhaps out of town, they typically say, "Well, let's at least sing Amazing Grace." Why? Everybody knows it. Even non-Christians know it. It is one of the most recognizable tunes through the course of human history. It seems [...]
The Advantages of Apartment Living for the Christian
A little airing of laundry: our family recently foreclosed on a house we had attempted to purchase 7 years ago. The house had sustained foundation damage prior to our attempted purchase, and having escaped the careful home inspector's eye, and not willing to file suit against a brother and sister [...]
Pitchers and Cathers Report – will Dads?
My former pastor (and in many ways he continues to be my pastor), David Prince, has published an article at Baptist Press on the excellencies of baseball. Having just signed Noah up for his first season of Little League, reading this article brings a tear to my eye. I highly recommend it to [...]
All That Thrills My Soul Is Jesus
What is a thrill? It is something that gets the heart pumping, like a roller coaster ride, or skydiving with a burning parachute, or riding on a bull named Fu Man Chu. It seem like most people are thrill-seekers of one kind or another. We all want our lives to have exciting moments. Thoro [...]
The Glory of God: Receive, Understand, Enjoy, and Spread
Every pastor needs to give the occasional meta-sermon, that is, a message or series of messages reminding the people of God, that God's ultimate aim in all things is His own glory. It is the "Big Story" in which all the little stories (like Cain and Abel, Noah's Ark, David and Goliath, Paul's [...]