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God is anxious to forgive our sins and help us to move on with our lives unencumbered by the weight of sin. All sin, of course, is equall...

[This was shared during the funeral for a friend of ours earlier this week.] Ecclesiastes 1:1-15 1 Corinthians 15:51-58 John 14:1-4 Al...

So practical...and, from my experience, so true .

[These are thoughts shared with residents of the Carlin House assisted living facility in Logan, Ohio, earlier today. I didn't write thi...

My nephew Jameson and I were asked to pose today as the family Mother's Day festivities were winding down. I'm not certain why, alt...

[This was shared during worship with the people of Saint Matthew Lutheran Church in Logan, Ohio, earlier today.] Luke 24:13-35 On this th...

[This was shared during the funeral for Dale, a member of the congregation I serve as pastor, earlier today.] Psalm 23 Romans 8:31-39 Jo...

In his book, Your God is Too Small (1961), the late J.B. Phillips wrote: Why mild? Of all the epithets that could be applied to Christ thi...

Have you ever heard of "proof-texting"? (No, it doesn't have anything to do with your cell phone.) Proof-texting is what hap...

There's some overlap with this morning's discussion. But there's some other stuff here you might find helpful.

I love this !

At Saint Matthew Lutheran Church in Logan, Ohio , we're reading the Bible together in a year's time. During this past week, we...

That's the subtitle of David McCullough's new book, The Greater Journey . It looks interesting, as usual when it comes to anything M...

... you're dying inside . It's as simple and as true as that.

In his practical book, How to Win Over Worry , Pastor John Edmund Haggai, not to be confused with John Hagee, says that one way to defeat th...

In my sermon this past Sunday , I talked about the decision we all have to make about whether we're open to believing in the God reveale...

Some thoughts I had regarding the London bombings six years ago, seem relevant today . Vengeance is always wrong; justice is right. Forgiven...

These brief thoughts presented by my colleague, Pastor Glen VanderKloot, from a John Ortberg book and the passage of Scripture that inspire...

[This was shared during worship with the people of Saint Matthew Lutheran Church in Logan, Ohio, earlier today.] Acts 2:14a, 22-32 Psalm ...