The Word to the World
Driving in the rain calls for concentration, especially when your eyes are filled with tears. That was me yesterday morning as I drove to the church office, listening to a playlist called “Memories,” a gift from a daughter. Each song is meaningful to me in
When I became a member of Brackenhurst Baptist Church, Nita Nagel was ten years older than I am now. And now, as I head toward the finish line of my ministry, Nita has just turned 97. As I visited her yesterday on her birthday, I
Psalm 118 opens and closes with an identical exhortation: “Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever” (vv. 1, 29). This dual exhortation to gratitude brackets everything else said in the psalm. It is a psalm in
“We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for