Columns Archive
- Most Uncommon (4/20/24)
- Together In One Place (4/13/24)
- When Seeing Is Not Believing (4/6/24)
- Following Jesus (3/23/24)
- We Are Not Able (3/16/24)
- God’s Venues (3/9/24)
- The Word of the Lord Has Come (3/2/24)
- Happy Returns (2/24/24)
- Face Time (2/17/24)
- It is What He Does that Matters (2/10/24)
- Wake-up Calls (2/3/24)
- It is What He Does that Matters (1/27/24)
- All Are Called (1/20/24)
- Our True Citizenship (1/13/24)
- From His Beloved Son (1/6/24)
- The Meaning of Life (12/23/23)
- Come, Lord Jesus (12/16/23)
- O Come, All Ye Faithful (12/9/23)
- The Greatest of Expectations (12/2/23)
- The Advent of Thanksgiving (11/25/23)
- Come Down, Lord Jesus (11/11/23)
- Dear Children of God (11/4/23)
- One Day, All Together (10/28/23)
- That We May Know Him (10/21/23)
- More Than Showing Up (10/15/23)
- Having Regard for the Vine (10/7/23)
- The Word of the Lord Has Come (9/30/23)
- Last Day Payday (9/23/23)
- As He Forgives Us (9/16/23)
- Protecting God's Children (9/9/23)
- He Restores Our Souls (9/2/23)
- Welcome Unexpected Sources (8/26/23)
- God’s Gift of Eternal Joy (8/19/23)
- Lord, if It is You… (8/13/23)
- God Chooses Us (8/5/23)
- The Ascendant Life (7/29/23)
- Greener Pastures (7/22/23)
- We Blessed Believers (7/15/23)
- Who Knew? (7/8/23)
- Rising, Overreaching, and Repenting (7/1/23)
- Making Sense of God’s Law (6/24/23)
- He Also Changeth Not (6/17/23)
- Calls From Home (6/10/23)
- Was and Will Be Again (6/3/23)
- The Phantoms of our Operas (5/27/23)
- Would All God's People (5/20/23)
- Knowing the Unknown God (5/13/23)
- Promised and Received—Perfect (5/6/23)
- All Together Now (4/29/23)
- When Comforts Flee (4/22/23)
- Many Signs and Wonders (4/15/23)
- Who Is Your Life (4/8/23)
- Walking Into it (4/1/23)
- The Tides of March (3/25/23)
- The Lord Is Among His People (3/18/23)
- The Deluge of Delusions (3/11/23)
- The Deliberate Church Life (3/4/23)
- It is—In Deed—Written (2/25/23)
- The Importance of Being Earnest (2/18/23)
- Making Sense of the World (2/11/23)
- The Essential Jesus Christ (2/4/23)
- These Things Are Written (1/28/23)
- Fits and Spells, Bells and Smells (1/21/23)
- Songs of the Servant (1/14/23)
- Children of the Light (1/7/23)
- Joyful Christmas Witnesses (12/31/22)
- Joyful Christmas Witnesses (12/24/22)
- God With Us (12/17/22)
- Speaking of God (12/10/22)
- Preparing for the Reign of Christ (12/3/22)
- Blessed Beast of Burden (11/26/22)
- Sweet Freedom (11/12/22)
- The Better Question (11/5/22)
- Time to Speak (10/29/22)
- Anything but Desperate (10/22/22)
- To God Be the Glory (10/15/22)
- Going His Way (10/8/22)
- Where Security is Found (10/1/22)
- For All the Saints (9/24/22)
- The Oracle Awaits the Time (9/17/22)
- Where We Find Joy (9/10/22)
- Givers Keepers (9/3/22)
- We Citizens of His Kingdom (8/27/22)
- Knowing What He Says (8/20/22)
- The Word of the Lord Came (8/13/22)
- Because He Is Good (8/6/22)
- The Ties That Bind (7/30/22)
- Christ Satisfies His People (7/23/22)
- Being His Disciple (7/16/22)
- The Uneasy Conscience (7/9/22)
- Resting Assured (7/2/22)
- Searching for the Suitable God (6/25/22)
- Called by the One Who Knows Us (6/18/22)
- Out of the Mouths of Babes (6/11/22)
- The Church’s One-Day Foundation (6/4/22)
- His Power, Influence, and Authority (5/28/22)
- Good Questions and Guesses (5/21/22)
- So You May Bear Them Now (5/14/22)
- We Abide in His Word (5/7/22)
- Worthy is He (4/30/22)
- The Return of Alleluia: Halleluiah! (4/23/22)
- His Word Endures Forever (4/16/22)
- The Humble One (4/9/22)
- The Only Know It All (3/26/22)
- How Shall We Live? (3/19/22)
- (Untitled) (3/18/22)
- Always Near Us (3/5/22)
- Blessed Preparation for Lent (2/26/22)
- Whom Do You Trust? (2/19/22)
- Blessed is the Man… (2/12/22)
- Many Happy Returns (1/22/22)
- The Only One and Way (1/8/22)
- The Father’s Business (1/4/22)
- The Lord’s Deliberate Ways (12/18/21)
- Unambiguously Ours (11/20/21)
- Bound and Delivered (11/13/21)
- The Ascended Life (10/23/21)
- Most Blessed Children (10/16/21)
- The Goings Going On (10/9/21)
- Did God Really Say? (10/2/21)
- Seeing This Is So (9/25/21)
- Welcome Home (9/18/21)
- Blessed Christian Unity (9/11/21)
- Cleaning Up Our Acts (8/28/21)
- And We? (8/21/21)
- Going His Way (8/14/21)
- Yes, Signs are Here (8/7/21)
- Our Good Hope (7/31/21)
- The Consistently Holy God (7/24/21)
- Unity in Christ (7/17/21)
- We Follow God's Clear Word (7/10/21)
- After the Windy Storms (7/3/21)
- Turning Sorrows Into Joys (6/26/21)
- Now Is the Favorable Time (6/19/21)
- Who's In Control (6/12/21)
- Jesus Christ, Our Savior (6/5/21)
- Hallowed Be Thy Name (5/29/21)
- We Will Live Again (5/22/21)
- Where Reason Is Found (5/15/21)
- Perfect Union (5/8/21)
- These Testy Times (5/1/21)
- Greenest Pastures (4/24/21)
- Indeed, He Is Risen (4/17/21)
- All Together Now (4/10/21)
- All Together Now (4/10/21)
- Just As He Told You (4/3/21)
- The Eyes Have It (3/27/21)
- The Tides of March (3/20/21)
- Our Deliverer (3/13/21)
- Anything but Desperate (3/6/21)
- Counted as Your Righteousness (2/27/21)
- Reunited with Christ (2/20/21)
- Fiery Gatherings (2/13/21)
- His Will Be Done (2/6/21)
- It is What He Does that Matters (1/30/21)
- Saved by Flood Waters (1/23/21)
- Non Separatum (1/16/21)
- Shoveling and Burying (1/9/21)
- Wisdom for the New Year (1/2/21)
- Immanuel, God with Us (12/26/20)
- God's Big Plan (12/19/20)
- Restoring Us (12/12/20)
- Advent Meditations (12/5/20)
- Come Down, Lord Jesus (11/28/20)
- True Brotherly Love (11/21/20)
- Happy Returns (11/14/20)
- Living Leaven (11/7/20)
- Where Are You? (10/31/20)
- Who Sets You Free (10/24/20)
- Our Great Hope (10/17/20)
- We Shall Not Want (10/10/20)
- What More Could he Do? (10/3/20)
- Power, Influence, and Authority (9/26/20)
- Cheap Travel and Talk (9/19/20)
- Places, Everyone (9/12/20)
- Getting Past Ourselves (9/5/20)
- Unsightly Wisdom (8/29/20)
- Blessed Suffering, Servant (8/22/20)
- Our Sincere Apologetics (8/15/20)
- Emerging Signs Ahead (8/8/20)
- His Feeding of Forgiveness (8/1/20)
- Gathering Clouds and Reign (7/25/20)
- For His Children Only (7/18/20)
- Mountain Seed (7/11/20)
- Mirror, Mirror, Off the Wall (7/11/20)
- Chomping At the Bit (6/27/20)
- Numbered (6/20/20)
- The One Wrong That Was Right (6/13/20)
- The Perfect Union (6/6/20)
- The Zealous or Jealous Servant (5/30/20)
- Gone, but Here (5/23/20)
- It Gets Personal (5/16/20)
- His Presence (5/9/20)
- We Shall Not Want (5/2/20)
- Christ, the Victor (4/25/20)
- For His Pleasure (4/18/20)
- The Lord is Risen, indeed! Alleluia! (4/11/20)
- We tremble not (4/4/20)
- Dying to live (3/28/20)
- Who's doing the preaching? (3/21/20)
- Good dinner conversation (3/14/20)
- For His Glory (3/7/20)
- Satisfied (2/29/20)
- It's in the Blood (2/22/20)
- Last words and testaments (2/15/20)
- What to expect (2/8/20)
- House and Home (2/1/20)
- Before, after, and in the middle (1/25/20)
- All about Jesus (1/18/20)
- It is written (1/11/20)
- In His Father's House (1/4/20)
- Not Too Late (12/28/19)
- The choice He makes (12/21/19)
- The Meaning of Life (12/14/19)
- O Come All Ye Faithful (12/7/19)
- Peace of Advent (11/30/19)
- Perfect ending, perfect beginning (11/23/19)
- Here and There (11/16/19)
- Not long ago (11/9/19)
- Blessed We (11/2/19)
- A mighty fortress is our God (10/26/19)
- To and For the Greatest (10/19/19)
- Tis the seasons (10/12/19)
- Kings and Kingdoms (10/5/19)
- More than an Angel's Touch (9/28/19)
- Practicality, Jesus' way (9/21/19)
- It's what He says (9/14/19)
- The Christian Family Tree (9/7/19)
- Peek-A-Boo He sees you (8/31/19)
- Beyond Self (8/24/19)
- Always and forever true (8/17/19)
- This happy business (8/10/19)
- On Christ the Solid Rock we stand (8/3/19)
- Most Holy Jesus (7/27/19)
- How are you doing? (7/20/19)
- Highly Favored Word (7/13/19)
- Set in His Way (6/29/19)
- What He has to do with us (6/22/19)
- Holy, Holy, Holy (6/15/19)
- Reaching and Repenting (6/8/19)
- Keeping commandments and not much else (6/1/19)
- Power from the High (5/25/19)
- Next to Godliness (5/18/19)
- Being with Him (5/11/19)
- His Doing (5/4/19)
- Yes, He Is Risen! (4/27/19)
- Why It Had to Be That Way (4/20/19)
- Much Ado about Everything (4/13/19)
- God's "New Thing" (4/6/19)
- His Terms (3/30/19)
- What's really needed (3/23/19)
- Two Kingdoms (3/16/19)
- Needy (3/9/19)
- Woken (3/2/19)
- What, we worry? (2/23/19)
- O Lord, open our eyes (2/16/19)
- Falling and walking (2/9/19)
- What Jesus has to do with You (2/2/19)
- Questioning authority (1/26/19)
- Testing our Faith (1/19/19)
- Eyes for you (1/12/19)
- The Brightness of His Rising (1/5/19)
- Most highly favored (12/29/18)
- Christmas Present (12/22/18)
- Dressed for the Holy Day (12/15/18)
- Creature comforts (12/1/18)
- The One (11/24/18)
- Happy Returns (11/17/18)
- What He Says (11/10/18)
- Visionary Living (11/3/18)
- Getting Out of Our Own Way (10/27/18)
- Wisdom knocking (10/20/18)
- Beyond Self (10/13/18)
- We are gathered here... (10/6/18)
- Bread from Heaven (9/29/18)
- Who Goes There? (9/15/18)
- For Better, for Worse (9/8/18)
- Christ is the Good News (9/1/18)
- Grasping Jesus (8/18/18)
- Kneeling Before Him (8/11/18)
- There is only one (8/4/18)
- Giving up the Ghost (7/28/18)
- Baggage claims (7/21/18)
- Amos and Anyone (7/14/18)
- Undeserved (7/7/18)
- Relishing in it (6/30/18)
- From the Wilderness (6/23/18)
- Home Sweet Home (6/16/18)
- Christ the Victor (6/9/18)
- Now, that's Gratitude (6/1/18)
- The joybells of Pentecost (5/26/18)
- Breathing new life (5/19/18)
- Answered Prayers (5/12/18)
- Some friend you are (5/5/18)
- On the Road Again (4/21/18)
- His Prayer and Ours (4/14/18)
- Tis the Season (4/7/18)
- He Does It (3/31/18)
- The Lord Provides (3/24/18)
- Following Jesus (3/17/18)
- Walking with the Christ (3/10/18)
- With respect to forgiveness (2/24/18)
- The Happy Returns of Lent (2/17/18)
- The Happy Returns of Lent (2/10/18)
- Singing with the Angels (2/3/18)
- Forgiveness swallows pride (1/27/18)
- And Again and Again (1/13/18)
- Seeing the Light (1/6/18)
- Come, Lord Jesus (12/23/17)
- God With Us (12/16/17)
- Christian Beholding (12/9/17)
- Advent Splash (12/2/17)
- His terms (11/25/17)
- November awakenings (11/18/17)
- Yes, He's returning soon (11/11/17)
- Now and Then (11/4/17)
- Know the Source (10/27/17)
- Happy 500th (10/21/17)
- Called and Chosen (10/14/17)
- Restore Us, O Lord (10/7/17)
- And a one and a seventy-two (9/30/17)
- He Forgives, We forgive (9/23/17)
- Yes, Bless the Lord (9/16/17)
- Your Status (9/9/17)
- Eating His Words (9/2/17)
- Like Children (8/19/17)
- It’s not Simon Who Says (8/12/17)
- Wanderings (7/1/17)
- Hidden Places (3/18/17)
- His and His Alone (12/31/16)
- Sweet Comfort (11/12/16)
- Yeah. Uh-huh. Sure. (4/30/16)
- Living in the Word (1/2/16)
- Great Beyonds (11/7/15)
- Tricks and Treats (10/31/15)
- Last Will and Testament (10/10/15)
- Children and Unicorns (10/3/15)
- No Stranger (9/26/15)
- Good News Everywhere (9/19/15)
- Helping our Unbelief (9/12/15)
- On the Head and Across the Lips (5/30/15)
- We the Pentecostals (5/23/15)
- Living in the Word (4/17/15)
- Pompous Circumstances (4/10/15)
- Living in the Word (4/3/15)
- His and His (3/28/15)
- Comfort, Comfort (3/20/15)
- Tree Stumped (3/6/15)
- The Time for Giving Up (2/13/15)
- You are His (2/6/15)
- No Huffing and Puffing (1/30/15)
- Living in the Word (1/16/15)
- Jesus Saves, thank God! (1/9/15)
- Fall and Rising (12/26/14)
- Come, Lord Jesus (12/19/14)
- Who Are You? (12/12/14)
- Prepared for You (12/5/14)
- Savior of the Nations, Come (11/28/14)
- The Advent of Hope (11/21/14)
- The Victorious Lamb (11/14/14)
- Living in the Word (10/24/14)
- For Better, for Worse (10/10/14)
- God's Gardens (10/3/14)
- Satisfaction Guaranteed (9/19/14)
- Forgiving and Forgetting (9/12/14)
- How to Love (9/5/14)
- Good Grief (8/29/14)
- Schooled (8/15/14)
- The Foul and the Fair (8/8/14)
- Our Good Hope (8/1/14)
- King of the Hill, Field, Sea... (7/25/14)
- Morning for the Mourning (7/18/14)
- The Sweetest Sounds (7/11/14)
- Keys of the Kingdom (6/27/14)
- The Best Visit (6/20/14)
- Joy Amidst the Mess (6/6/14)
- Pentecost in the Bootheel (5/30/14)
- Risen with the Son (5/23/14)
- Where Jesus Is (5/16/14)
- J'accuse, pardon my French (5/2/14)
- Reading Your Signs (4/25/14)
- He is Risen, In Deed! Alleluia! (4/18/14)
- Mirror, Mirror on the Cross (4/11/14)
- What are you looking at? (4/4/14)
- The Eyes Have It (3/28/14)
- Welcome to Your Intervention (3/21/14)
- Lenten Lessons (3/14/14)
- The Joy and Laughter of Lent (3/7/14)
- Not Safe But Saved (2/28/14)
- On the Make and the Move (2/7/14)
- Forever Free (1/31/14)
- The Dickinson You Say (1/24/14)
- The Best New Year's Resolution (1/3/14)
- Silent and Holy Nights (12/20/13)
- The Advent Tree of Life (12/13/13)
- O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (11/29/13)
- Life from the Mountaintops (10/18/13)
- All Cleaned Up (9/6/13)
- The Art of Life (8/30/13)
- Whistling and Thistling (8/23/13)
- The Storm Cloud of Jesus Christ (8/16/13)
- Shooting and Filling in Blanks (8/9/13)
- Hide and Seek, Christian Style (8/2/13)
- Just who are you, Lord? (7/26/13)
- Laying It All Out (7/19/13)
- Who is that Masked Man? (7/12/13)
- Forgive and Forget-Him-Not (7/5/13)
- Smiting and Smitten with Jesus (6/28/13)
- Grasping Jesus (6/21/13)
- Father Worthy (6/14/13)
- June Harvest (5/31/13)
- The peelings of paint and wedding bells (5/24/13)
- Pentecostal Joy (5/17/13)
- New Sights of Spring (5/10/13)
- Plain Living (4/26/13)
- Our Perfect Resurrected Life (4/12/13)
- The Revolutions of Jesus Christ (4/5/13)
- His, Yours, and Mine (3/29/13)
- Crushes on Jesus (3/22/13)
- Old songs, new songs (3/15/13)
- Picture of Perfection (3/10/13)
- The Light of Lights (3/1/13)
- Lenten Bank and Trust (2/22/13)
- Elementary Lenten 101 (2/15/13)
- Listen, God is calling... (2/8/13)
- Growing up in the Boonies (2/1/13)
- Genuine Yada, Yada, Yada (1/25/13)
- Tongue Bitten Faith (1/18/13)
- The Calls of Winter (1/11/13)
- The Path to the Epiphany (1/4/13)
- Ringing in the New Era (12/28/12)
- Known Associates (12/21/12)
- Keeping Advent (12/7/12)
- The Advent Driven Life (11/30/12)
- Those Longing Looks (11/23/12)
- Singing a new song (11/16/12)
- Hear ye, hear ye... (11/9/12)
- Crowd Scenes (11/2/12)
- Blitzes and Ditzes (10/26/12)
- The Dukes and Dutchesses (10/19/12)
- There, there... (10/5/12)
- States of Humiliation (9/21/12)
- Out of the Mouths of Babes (9/14/12)
- Family Secrets (9/7/12)
- Dancing in a Doll House (8/31/12)
- Basket Cases (8/3/12)
- On the Lookout (6/15/12)
- Signs and Wanderings (6/1/12)