Teaching to Understand

Are you a teacher? This question applies to us as it did to the great teacher of the Jewish law, Nicodemus. Nicodemus was so busy teaching the concept, he was failing to live it.  So how do we become better teachers? The most recent sermon in the Lenten Sermon Series...

What Are You Looking For?

Yesterday, I preached a sermon that asked and partially answered a question of faith. “What are you looking for?” Part of the answer acknowledged the searching questions that occupy our own hearts and affirmed the validity of that search. There’s...

New Pastor, New Decision

Bishop Charlene Kammerer (shown above) is finally satisfied with the situation at South Hill UMC. In recent UMC news, a man who was previously turned away at South Hill (Va.) United Methodist Church because of unrepented sin was received by transfer of membership from...

Balance of Wills

Work and rest. Serious and silly. Past and future. Creativity and logic. People try to balance things all the time. I’m one of them. My work and home lives are intricately bound together, yet I try to seperate them in order to balance them. My kids expect me to...

Mohler in the Middle

We have another unfortunate situation. The president of the leading Southern Baptist seminary has incurred sharp attacks from both the left and right by suggesting that a biological basis for homosexuality may be proven, and that prenatal treatment to reverse gay...