Note: Every week I post sermon ideas on my Center for Excellence in Preaching website.  But every once in a while these pieces may have

One week ago today I was in Atlanta to record a Day1 radio program.   The recording wrapped up before noon and although I was meeting

Years ago at the church I served I got in hot water with a parishioner after I gave a sermon illustration that was critical of

The headline on CNN Monday morning was “Campaign in Limbo” and reflected on the fact that although two weeks remain in this never-ending presidential election–and

My daughter knows I like picking up old postcards at antique malls sometimes and so last week brought me home a couple oldies she found

Once again summer schedules and the calendar mean I am composing this blog five days before it will appear.  I won’t know what my colleagues

As I am leading a seminar out West this week, I am writing this blog before the CRC Synod is over. And there will be

By the end of this week my denomination’s annual meeting of the Synod will have begun.  My colleague here on The Twelve, Steve Mathonnet VanderWell,

Last week I sat in on an oral Ph.D. dissertation defense that focused on a Bible commentator from the 17th century.  Among the propositions the