November 5, 2020 · 4:05 am

A Trip Down Memory Lane

For the past 5 days, we’ve been in Hendricks County, Indiana, preaching for the church in Brownsburg, which is just West of Indianapolis.

This is the county where I grew up. We lived in the country between Plainfield and Danville. It’s been years since we’ve been here for any length of time, so I told Norma Jean that it was time to take a trip down memory lane. She patiently went along for the ride and listened to my old childhood stories. We drove the roads where I rode my bike and later begin driving a 1953 Chevy. Continue reading →

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November 4, 2020 · 6:49 am

9 Post-Election Things I Know

“Too Early To Call” was the news caption on key battleground states when I turned off the TV last night.

This morning I awoke to the same caption. Neither President Trump nor Joe Biden has captured enough delegates to truly claim victory. While each is obviously hopeful the outcome still hangs in the balance. It’s still undecided. We don’t know. And may not know for a few days.

The political pundits are perplexed over the unknown factors that have made this election the most unusual in American history. Even the experts don’t know how this is going to end. Continue reading →

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November 3, 2020 · 7:18 am

Chaos or Calm?

While settling into my little corner in the Hampton Inn lobby to write today’s post, the lady working the front desk walked by and asked, “Are you ready for all the chaos that’s about to unfold today?”

I chuckled to myself. I already had decided to share a few thoughts about our attitudes and actions on this Presidential election day.

My new “friend” further opined that the chaos would not end today, predicting post-election problems, discord, and disorder. She may be right. Some businesses in downtown Indianapolis, as well as Washington, D.C., and a number of other major cities are boarding up their windows, fearing post-election riots, and looting. Continue reading →

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November 2, 2020 · 7:08 am

Word of the Week: Believe

Legend has it that the Danish, Nobel-prize-winning physicist, Niels Bohr had his desk in the shape of a horseshoe, securely nailed to the wall with the open end up so it would catch good luck and not let it spill out.

Once an American scientist visited Bohr in Copenhagen. Amazed to see the desk, he asked with a nervous laugh, “Surely you don’t believe the horseshoe will bring you good luck, do you, Professor Bohr? Continue reading →

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November 1, 2020 · 4:01 am

Sunday Seed Thoughts: Time

Last night we set our clocks back one hour to begin the semi-annual debate about Daylight Savings Time. Some like it. Others loathe it.

One sage quipped, “Daylight saving time: Only the government would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket.”

However, regardless of the time zone we’re living in, we should be conscious of the stewardship of time. The Bible exhorts us to “redeem the time” (Eph. 5:16). The means, as the ESV renders it, “making the best use of the time.” Continue reading →

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October 31, 2020 · 4:31 am

Weekly Recap: October 25-30

Good morning,

Today we’re leaving the Smoky Mountains heading to Brownsburg, Indiana, where I will be holding a Gospel Meeting.  It’s a Sunday-Wednesday series on “Belonging to One Another.” Click here for topics, times, and directions to the church.  If you’re in the greater Indianapolis area, we’d love to see you.

In case you missed one of our posts, this week, our Saturday blog is a recap with the links for you to quickly access it.  Also, I’ve included a bonus blog about Holloween. Continue reading →

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October 30, 2020 · 4:30 am

Friday’s List To Live By #15

Today’s list is taken and adapted from God Is in the Small Stuff…and It All Matters by Bruce Bickel and Stan Jantz.

It offers food for thought regarding discipline in your life, spiritual and otherwise.

If you’re new to ThePreachersWord, this has become a regular Friday feature. To access the previous 14 lists, click here. Continue reading →

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October 29, 2020 · 4:29 am

Seeing Like Jesus

“A leader is one who knows the way, shows the way and goes the way,” wrote John Maxwell in his best selling book, The Success Journey.

John’s point speaks to the virtue of vision. Perception. And foresight. It’s also the attribute the apostle John enunciated when he recorded Jesus’ words to the disciples in John 4:35.

“Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!” Continue reading →

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October 28, 2020 · 4:28 am

A Passage To Ponder: John 3:1-21

“Being called a “born-again Christian” can mean many things to many people,” wrote Matthew Barrett in a recent online post in Christianity Today.

“For some,” Barrett writes, “it means you are a Bible-thumping fundamentalist or a political conservative. For others, it means you were converted at a Billy Graham crusade. Countless stereotypes have created endless confusion.”

The article, entitled, “Even Among Some Well-Meaning Christians, ‘Born Again’ Is Often Misunderstood,” is subtitled “Recapturing the meaning of a much-stereotyped phrase” Continue reading →

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October 27, 2020 · 4:27 am

7 Names for Jesus in John 1

Billy Sunday once said in a sermon that there are 256 names given for Jesus in the Bible. Then he added, “I suppose this was because He was infinitely beyond all that any one name could express.”

This is significant because the Bible pays particular attention to names. Names speak to one’s character. Identity. Personality. And purpose in life.

The many names of Jesus remind of us His greatness. His majesty. His Deity. His ministry. His mission. And our relationship to Him. Continue reading →

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