The recent church camping and river trip impressed upon me the fact that I should not assume that you as a congregation have read books that I am sure you have read – or seen movies that I am sure that you have seen.  Indeed, even though all of you should have read J....

Even those of you who are ignoramuses when it comes to American history have heard the name of the notorious Chicago mobster, Al Capone.  But you may not have heard of his attorney, Easy Eddie, who was the skillful genius who helped Capone amass a financial empire,...

I was entering the seventh grade, a new kid in a new town at a new school, sitting in the junior high auditorium, enduring an orientation class, not knowing a soul. The only friends I had made that summer were sixth graders, and back in those dark ages, when I was a...

If you were a looking for Biblical proof that civil government enjoys the sanction of divine authority, Romans 13: 1-7 provides such an endorsement.  Paul urges everyone to be subject to the governing authorities, calls everyone to live in obedience to the rulers of...

Goliath stood nine and a half feet tall.  We’re talking a surefire NBA lottery pick.  He was covered head to toe in polished bronze and carried a spear the size of a pole-vault pole and a shield that looked like a piece of aluminum siding.   And he walked before the...