I had arisen early so I could take a run. My eye happened to fall upon one of my children’s library books – The Jesse Owens Story. Reflexively, I picked it up and read it quickly, then took off on my run, thinking temporarily about the great track star Jesse Owens....

In Matthew’s account of Easter morning, Mary Magdalene and “the other Mary” went after dawn to see Jesus’ sepulchre. In Mark’s account of Easter, Mary Magdalene, “Mary the mother of Joses” and Salome bought spices with which to annoint the body. In Luke’s account of...

The doctrine of the priesthood of the believer lay like a seed growing secretly in the garden of God’s Holy Word. On this Reformation Sunday we acknowledge that it took a genius – disguised as a priest -- to recognize that God intended all believers to be priests....

“If I speak in the tongues of men and angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.” We recognize these words as the enduring message of a great man. What generally escapes our notice is that these are also words from one who probed his own psyche...

If you walked in the gymnasium at St. John’s Baptist Church in Charlotte, you would discover a large extension ladder with a huge crow’s nest atop it. You would also notice that it is chained to the wall. That chain is there because of my children. About twenty-five...