It’s been an awfully long weekend for me, as after the final service in Tinley Park today my family took me to Hamada’s for a special Father’s Day lunch together.  Then we rushed home to quickly pack the car for a trip to my in-law’s in Madison Hts, MI (near Detroit), and the normal 4.5 [...]

No, I’m not back to write about yet another man who’s influenced me. 
Instead, I want to get to the heart of what this was all about in the first place: honor.
Father’s Day is the perfect time to talk about it, because of what God said here
From where I sit, that means it’s in my best [...]

As I’ve said previously, Father’s Day seems like the appropriate time to pay some long-overdue honor to three men who have had major impact on my life.  In fact, the whole subject of honor is HUGE in Scripture and increasingly rare in our American culture, so it’s one I really need to visit occasionally as a [...]

Father’s Day seems like the appropriate time to pay some long-overdue honor to three men who have had major impact on my life.  In fact, the whole subject of honor is HUGE in Scripture and increasingly rare in our American culture, so it’s one I really need to visit occasionally as a pastor who wants to [...]

Father’s Day seems like the appropriate time to pay some long-overdue honor to three men who have had major impact on my life.  In fact, the whole subject of honor is HUGE in Scripture and increasingly rare in our American culture, so it’s one I really need to visit occasionally as a pastor who wants to [...]

One week from today my firstborn, Chad, will be married to Miss Dorothy Stamp, at Turtle Bay on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.  It’s been a long engagement and we’re all excited that the day is finally here.

My wife and daughter have both been hitting the gym faithfully for months, dropping pounds and inches as [...]

Someone asked about Matthew 5:31-32 and if it means that if my husband divorces me and I marry again that I and my new husband are committing adultery and therefore our marriage is a sin? What happens to the husband who divorced me in the first place? or does this only apply if you divorce outside of adultery. [...]

Ok.  I’m back with yesterday’s devotional reading that jumped out at me.  It’s found in Ephesians 1:13-14
Here’s what impressed me:

As believers, we have been marked with God’s seal.  (In Bible times, much like a ‘Good Housekeeping seal of approval’ or “U.L. approved” today, rulers used an offical seal so everyone would know the origin/authority of [...]

Sometimes it just jumps off the page at me, and it happened today in 2 different passages (I’m using the Bible reading plan we gave out at CLC in January, so I read some OT history, OT poetry, OT prophecy, NT Gospel and NT Epistle each day).
The first one is Luke 8:11-15 and what struck me is [...]

Ever hear somebody say something that’s exactly what you were thinking?  Ever read something somebody wrote that was exactly what you’d been thinking?  Ever wish you’d said it first?
That’s exactly how I felt this morning when I read this