If you have been reading this space for very long, you may recall that I refer to some days as “Noah days†and others as “Jonah days.†I stole this from someone a long time ago, but it has served me well when calibrating my attitude.
I have a remarkably complex relationship with mowing my yard. I don’t say, “mowing the grass,†because a great percentage of what is growing there is not grass. There are at least a dozen different flowering plants, many of which are early to…
Ponderosa Baptist Church had a ribbon-cutting Sunday for a $1.5 million building that houses “what might be the most interesting ministry our church does,†said Pastor Norman Cotton.
I hate war. I hate the destruction of property and disruption of the economy. I hate the killing. I am familiar with “just war†theory, but it doesn’t make any of it better. National leaders, whether we like them or not and whether we conside…
This is the time of year that the Christian world thinks about resurrection. We think about death – and life. The greatest victory comes immediately after what looks to be the greatest defeat. Outside, just now, standing next to the garden pl…
I think there is a surprising source for us to sort out all the things we hear going on around us. At least to think about how to process all that is happening in the world. The book of Job is much more than a book about suffering. It is also a book about different perspectives on suffering.
We do not like to see our children get hurt. We do not like to see our children in pain. When our kids get sick, we would like to take their place. When they are suffering in any way, we hurt for them.
If you were to write down the first rule of your life, what would it be? What is at the core? What is the one thing that every other decision you make hangs upon? We may say what it is without realizing how much that core has been influenced and corrupted by the context of our lives.
In our world of innovation and new technologies, it is easy to forget the value of repetition. Repetition is necessary for mastery of any valuable skill. Enough repetition soaks into our minds and our muscles so much that we can learn to do h…
In the conversation the serpent has with Eve, he begins with a lie which allows Eve to explain exactly what God had said to them. Adam and Eve could eat of any tree in the Garden of Eden, except for the tree that was in the middle of the gard…
We live in a wonderful and dangerous world. The most beautiful things are often the things that are most dangerous or inaccessible. Those things that arouse awe in us are at once enjoyed and feared. This is the source of worship for all human…
Nine volunteers from Porter Memorial Baptist Church traveled to Italy through the International Mission Board (IMB) during the Winter Olympics with a clear purpose — to share Jesus with anyone they met.
PRINCETON — The 41st annual Western Kentucky Evangelism Conference will be ¶¶ÒõÖ±²¥Èí¼þ, March 2, at Southside Baptist Church again this year, but will feature a change from the traditional schedule.
The noisemakers in the “newstainment†business and doomscroll content providers keep feeding into the “America is divided†narrative. The number of people absorbing this is enough to create anxiety noise that affects the rest of us. I believe…
There has been a shift in my lifetime in political discourse. We have been here before, and we will be again, but we live in the now with its own set of circumstances. So much of our political rhetoric uses language of morality rather than po…
