Christ, that is. He is not now to be our dessert. He is not to be what we eat after we have had our fill of the world. He is the main course. He is our...
Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord (2 Corinthians 6:17a) All the news of late, real or fake, is of the separation of the children from...
This column is about the Christian and culture. Hence it is called Grace and Main. Grace represents Christ and Christianity and the Christians who believe...
The other day my son informed me, a few days after New Year’s Day, that he had not broken a single New Year’s resolution. Thinking that this was rather proud...
The Church of Christ is a building. It is not a normal building, but a “spiritual house,” with “living stones” who are the believers, as Peter notes. This...
Visiting prison will do it to you. It will move you, if you have any pulse at all, to think of freedom. To be glad for it. To live free. To rejoice in the...
Black lives matter. White lives matter. Hispanic, Chinese, and all lives matter. Including the lives of the unborn, those with mental and physical infirmities,...
I confess I had to look it up. Integrity refers generally to wholeness or completeness. An integer is a whole number, a one or a two, and not a half. A...
All God’s words are great. We are to hear them all. One great word of God Israel was especially to hear is recorded in Deuteronomy 6. God was speaking to the...
Let it be known, for it is the truth: graduation is not till we get to heaven. Till then we are in school. That means, we are still learning, and need to be...
Awake! That is the call from some of late. Actually, it is a call to a “great awakening.” I heard it on the radio the other day. The call is to Grand...
In sharing some vacation thoughts with you I could not resist “parabling,” as we might call it, a famous road of Glacier National Park. The road is called...
The following is the text of a speech by our Pastor given at the recent graduation ceremony of five home-schoolers. It should be noted that all the graduates...
Mindful of our human frailty… I’m mindful now. It took something not even the size of the dot over this “i,” or of this period. Some virus, bacteria,...
There's Hallmark joy. That's the store kind. It is the joy money can buy. And there's Spirit joy. That's the gospel kind. It is the joy only God can...
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. Galatians 5:...
Let's grow, shall we! It's summertime, and we see and anticipate good and beautiful things growing. We watch some. How those dahlias and delphiniums...
Back in my school days, up at the Seminary, we’d have a contest each spring among the students. It was to see who could guess when the frogs in the swamp next...