Articles

I’ve written about 50 articles for Preaching Today, Leadership Journal, and CT Pastors. Below are a few of my favorites. If you’d like to browse all my articles at their website, click the button below.

Good as Gold

The first shepherds to see the Christ child came empty-handed. We pastors, however, are a new breed of shepherds. We have our own unique, God-given ...
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‘The Crowning Grace of Old Age’

A seminary student once told me, “When I think of grace, I don’t think of my pastors or youth pastor. I think of the old ...
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Arborists

A kingdom axiom says the righteous always flourish, “like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf ...
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A Song That Sets Us Apart

Our “psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit” trace their lineage back to the Hebrew psalter. There, one psalm, Psalm 92, is designated, “For the ...
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‘For the Sabbath Day’

Sabbath/Sunday is our God-given day for head-clearing. Pastors often carve out personal Sabbath times away from the holy hubbub of our Sunday morning work, but ...
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Awe

Our challenge is to preach on such texts so that people not only understand them, but their eyes go wide and their hearts leap. Preachers ...
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