Dear Friends, The messages for the next three weeks are a retelling of one of the most beautiful stories of grace in all of Scripture–David and Mephibosheth. You can read it in 1 Samuel 20; 2 Samuel 4:4; 2 Samuel 9; and 1 Chronicles 8:23-24. Jesus Christ was born in the line of David and
A Word of Grace – April 23, 2018
Dear Friends, This is a hardcore gospel message. There are portions of it that made me squirm as I wrote them. It will likely have that affect on many of you. I have lived what I am talking about and have made past choices that I regret. Lawyer, that I am, I have looked for
A Word of Grace – April 16, 2018
Dear Friends, I am blessed with a number of friends with young families. It is a joy to watch the milestones of first words and first steps of their babies. Learning to walk is one of the fundamental developments of infancy. Being able to stand on one’s own and take steps towards a goal means
A Word of Grace – April 9, 2018
Dear Friends, I was unable to send out a message last week because of internet problems now resolved. On May 12, 1727, some Moravian believers in Herrenhut, Saxony, began a daily “watch” vigil for Christian revival. The Moravians kept it up for the next 100 years. The world’s first large scale missions effort was the
A Word of Grace – March 26, 2018
Dear Friends, Each if us, at one time or another in the midst of grief, pain, exhaustion, or boredom, wonders if God cares about me personally? A son of a former colleague suffered a neuropsychiatric disorder that required special attention at times in his fourth-grade church school classroom and made him “different” in the perceptions