Years ago, in the midst of a busy morning, my administrative assistant buzzed me to say, “A Charlotte Observer reporter is on the line. He wants to talk to you.” I picked up the receiver and the reporter said, “Dr. Kremer, explain to me the Christian understanding of...

This story is strange and disturbing. On one level, Jepthah was one of Israel’s most formidable judges, a great warrior, brave, strong, intelligent – and profoundly insecure, though that’s the last word he would have used to describe himself. In a moment of...

“Saul arose from the ground and when his eyes were opened, he could see nothing.“ Before we contemplate the figure of Saul in his darkness, let us think about people in our contemporary world who feel as if they live in darkness: the man in the doctor’s office who has...

Early one July morning in 1944, in the little town of Bedford, Virginia, located halfway between Lynchburg and Roanoke, Virginia, a young woman working as a teletype operator at a drug store typed in her usual message to the central operator: “Good morning. Bedford....

As we begin this sermon this morning, I want you to do something for me. I want you to reach out to the person nearest to you, take their hand and squeeze it gently for a moment. . . . now let it go. . . . You have just demonstrated the most effective and powerful...

I want you young people to know that you have been subjected to a subliminal message, a subliminal message that is being communicated to you by your parents, grandparents, Sunday School teachers, ministers and mentors – a message which, next to the words, “We love...

God created us with eyes. That simple fact alone suggests that we are designed to want. We see people, opportunities, and things that we believe would please us – and we want them. Advertisers know this: some years ago there was a commercial whose theme song was, “I...

The truth is, the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth was no big deal. The Roman government perpetrated over ten thousand such executions during the long and bloody reign of their empire. If the Jerusalem Times had bothered to send a cub reporter to cover Jesus’...

Thomas Hemerken, better known to the world as Thomas a’ Kempis, was born late in the 14th century. Born of poor parents, he entered the monastery in 1399 and worked there for the next seventy-two years. He distinguished himself as a preacher and spiritual advisor, but...

I think perhaps the fact that this is my first Easter without my father has caused me to think more intently about the reality of heaven. But as I reflect on that subject my mind turns to a statement that my children made to me often when they were young: “Daddy, when...