Throughout my life, I have taught a number of the books of the Bible, including Matthew, Luke and John. But I have never had the opportunity to teach the book of Mark. So that’s the topic of this year’s study…
This past week, there have been hundreds of graduation parties as children move from elementary school to middle school, or middle school to high school; and finally on to college. Each of these occasions is a marker event – something…
We’re in the time between the resurrection and Pentecost, the time when the Holy Spirit came and the Acts 2 church was started, with Peter preaching the first sermon. It occurs to me that perhaps we don’t focus enough attention…
This past week-end, yesterday in fact, our oldest grandson Connor was baptized at Zionsville Presbyterian Church, where our daughter Kristin is on staff. Undeniably, baptism is one of those lightning rod issues that many denominations and faith groups view with…
Almost thirty two years ago, when we moved here to Carmel, one of the very exciting things that I was looking forward to was to visit the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, home of the famed Indy 500. We live about 40…
I have had more requests for prayer lately than I have had in quite some time. Let’s face it – we all have issues. Janet and I have things we cover in prayer – and many folks write in to…
The last several days I have been writing about Easter, the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross and the events that happened in the days following the resurrection. After all, these are things that we, as Christians, rarely think about…