The news has been bringing me down lately. I know there is always bad news out there. And I know to monitor my intake of it. I know to look for stories that reflect something other than the fear mongering or the dregs of human behavior in which some media channels tend to traffic. This…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho. December 15, 2013 Luke 1:39-55 A few weeks ago, NBC aired a ‘recorded live’ presentation of the Sound of Music. And despite what the critics said, I thought it was worth it just to hear Audra MacDonald sing Climb Every Mountain. But when you’re watching…
Governor Mike Huckabee got himself in a heap of trouble after the shootings in Connecticut when he said this: “We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools,” Huckabee said on Fox News, discussing the murder spree that took the lives of 20 children and 6…
In response to the slaughter of the innocents in Connecticut last week, President Obama quoted Paul’s second letter to the church in Corinth. (2 Cor 4:16-5:1). Full speech can be viewed here. So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day.…
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho on Dec 16, 2012. Luke 1:39-56 I thought I knew where this sermon was going to go. And then came the news Friday about another shooting. This time children in Connecticut. Kindergarteners gunned down at their school. And I thought, “how in the world am…
Glass Overflowing 