The Weather Channel displays a great aptitude for obtaining not only amazing videos of awe-inspiring or incredibly-destructive natural catastrophes, but sometimes, they manage to gain footage of weird human- interest events that capture people’s attention.  This week...

Three sources have inspired this sermon, one literary, one Biblical and one, shall we say, contemporary.  The literary inspiration was provided by a man named Horatio Alger, whom I suspect virtually none of you have ever heard of.  But in the late 19th century and...

The difficulty of this passage roots in the conundrum that what seems to be the specific will of God in this instance so clearly contradicts the general will of God throughout the Bible. Throughout the Old Testament God unequivocally commands the Hebrew people not to...

Many few years ago the Kremer family took a quick camping trip, and optimists that we were, we left the house in a driving rain storm. We stopped at a store to look at kitchen canopies and my thrifty wife said, “Let’s wait until they’re on sale.”  “Honey,” I replied,...

Normally, this would be the season when stadiums and high school auditoriums would be filled with graduates listening to baccalaureate addresses and commencement speeches in which no small number of them would feature the feel-good theme of positive psychology: ...