During this March Madness season, it seems appropriate that the title of the morning sermon comes from a basketball coach. Years ago, the Los Angeles Lakers had such an entertaining team they were known by the nickname, “Showtime.” They won numerous NBA championships...

Remember that the letters of Paul were spoken before they were written, or more precisely, they were written as they were spoken. Because of Paul’s declining eyesight, he never wrote anything himself, but dictated his letters to a faithful amanuensis, a fancy word for...

You may not have ever noticed our first Scriptural text for the morning or ever contemplated its context. Moses has come down from the mountain bearing those fundamental instructions from God that we call the Ten Commandments. The Israelites have witnessed Moses in...

In Larry McMurtry’s epic novel Lonesome Dove, two old Texas Rangers are riding to Austin to look for a cook, and one of them, Augustus McRae, veers off the trail to ride into a grove of live oaks, down by a beautiful creek. His partner, the no-nonsense Woodrow Call,...

The text for the morning is complicated, and I do not have time to explicate it in its entirety. (I promise to do so during our ongoing Bible study in 2 Samuel.) Suffice it to say that King David thought it morally correct and politically expedient to hand over to the...