Today’s wildflower is one of many flowers that may start blooming in late spring and extend to mid- or late summer.

These past weeks we have listened to and chanted the verses of The Farewell Discourse of Jesus as recounted in the Gospel of John. 

Looking over some of the famous works of history, one finds some interesting facts.

The writer of Ecclesiastes calls our attention to God’s creation when noting, “He has made everything beautiful in its time.”(3:11a) The wildflower on which we focus today is a perfect example of this truth.

We sometimes use the term “wannabe” to refer to someone who tries to be like somebody else.

Simply stated, I cannot over-emphasize the critical nature of listening to the building of authentic relationships.

I get frustrated by the church.

This Sunday we celebrate again our fathers and those who have been father figures in our lives.

Wildflowers are a special source of blessing to me. 

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Recently my wife and I, along with our son and daughter-in-law, participated in another one of those escape room experiences in which you try to find clues and solve puzzles in order to get out of a locked room. 

Christianity has long been involved in evangelization – spreading the Word of God to cultures that seemed to the Church to be bereft of the true God.

Somewhere between 627 B.C. and 586 B.C., the Hebrew prophet, Jeremiah who wrote words that he claimed were directly from God, wrote: “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?” (Jeremiah 17:9, NLT).

Fatherhood is a gift when family life is prioritized.

From the first reading taken from Acts, it seems that the dawning days of Christianity were marred by dissension and division.

Dr. Lutzer pointed out that tolerance was only truly possible in a world influenced by the Christian world view.

“Antichrist” is not a future incarnation of evil but a present reality.

Allow me to lead you to a wonderful work of The Creator that is not as evident about us as the flashy wildflowers such as periwinkles, violets, and dandelions.

As part of making recent changes in our cable TV package, we updated some of our equipment.

So how do we come to love ourselves and overcome our feelings of inadequacy, inferiority and worthlessness?

Let us examine another wonder of nature that God has created for our enjoyment.

The Good News that is God within us was delivered a long time ago and is within every person born into this world.

Recently the Atlanta Braves called up a young player who had been doing very well in their minor league system to join the major league club. His arrival seems to have sparked a fire in the whole team.

There is a spot on I-20 East in Atlanta where the exit for I-85 and I-75 is located. That spot – THAT spot – has been the scene of some of our more heated disagreements.

Paul understood that his impossibility could be God’s possibility.

One of the things I enjoy every Memorial Day is the PBS Memorial Day Special broadcast from Washington, D.C.

John 14:6 was never meant to be used as a judgment against others.

We often run upon things in life that are different from what we’re accustomed to, especially as we get older.

Psalm 104 is a hymn of praise for the world God has created.

I have been thinking lately …

A survey was once conducted over the country in which two questions were asked. First, are you worried about anything? Second, if so, what?

In a couple of weeks, along with numerous others, she will reach the monumental milestone of becoming a high school graduate.

When I think of spring, I think of Lent, a time for meditation and contemplation.

Not long ago I purchased a new car. It so happened that the salesman who helped me with this transaction was a Muslim. When he found out I was a Christian minister, he was anxious for us to talk about religious matters.

Last week we began to address a difficult issue— the problem of sin

On a late spring afternoon during my senior year of high school, my life changed.

Wildflowers are objects of beauty to some and weeds to others. 

The church is the expression of God’s presence in the world. 

You probably heard about the young man who is being hailed a hero in connection with a recent shooting at a college in North Carolina.

We are not sinners because we sin; we sin because we are sinners.

In my article of May 11 we broached the idea that what often passes as intellectual superiority in certain arguments is really a question of moral deformity.

This past week saw the start of Ramadan, the 28-day holy period in which Muslims around the world will fast from both food and water from sunup to sundown.

One of Mama’s constraint refrains was, “None of y’uns realize how much I do for this family. When I’m gone, y’all will all realize it.”

Isaiah the prophet reminds us of how we can live wisely and well in the midst of continuous strain (tensions).

When I taught children at the Sketching Pad in Olde Town Conyers, perhaps the most important principle I taught them was, “You are unique.”

There is a small town not far from Phuket, Thailand.  And in that small town, on a side street, there works a blacksmith

A couple from our congregation has begun a “house church” in Covington.

In a number of different places, the Apostle Paul makes some comments that are so offensive to modern men.