HOPE FOR TODAY: What if our religion has it ALL WRONG?

“You... will say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets’... but he will say ‘I tell you, I do not know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of evil!

OUT TO PASTOR: The world needs more grandfathers

Honesty will make me say that I do not know as much as I really ought to know. So much I do not know that I am not quite sure how much that is. I really won’t ever come to that conclusion. Although I do not know everything, I have figured out a few things.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: Something big missing!

Good week to all. Welcome to the “front porch.” Bible history is marked by a number of key transitional moments – from Abraham’s packing up and heading to Canaan to the carrying away of Judah into Babylonian captivity more than a thousand years later.

HOPE FOR TODAY: When we make men into gods

As a teenager, I loved playing basketball. Dr. J and Michael Jordan were my favorite NBA players. While living in Colorado, I was fortunate to have my Dad take me to see each of them play at McNichols Arena in Denver. Those are incredible memories.

OUT TO PASTOR: I sure miss my old typewriter

I was going through my office the other day looking for something, and then I saw it for the first time in many years. It was my old typewriter. Up until I got my typewriter, I was writing everything by hand, which can get very tiring after a while.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: Don’t be shocked to find a ‘sleeper’ in the late rounds!

Good day to all. Welcome to the “front porch.” Did you know that Bart Starr – quarterback for the Green Bay Packers in the 1960s – was picked in the seventeenth round of the 1956 draft. He was the 200th player taken in.

OUT TO PASTOR: Did I just call myself?

I am old enough to remember those days when there was nothing like cell phones. Every time you needed to make a phone call, you went to where a phone was. Those were the days of the telephone booth. Remember those? That's were Clark Kent turned into Superman.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: Remembering “Daddy”

Good day to all. Welcome to the “front porch.” On Dec. 12, 2007 I wrote my first column about my father. Every column has a context, and that one came on the day of his death forty years prior on Dec. 12, 1967.

OUT TO PASTOR: In praise... of crazy

I made a mistake the other night of complaining out loud. It is one thing to complain under your breath so that nobody hears you or knows what you are complaining about. But when you complain out loud, then you run the chance of somebody... hearing you.

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: “By the way, I’ve got a job for you!” – The Lord

“What Lord?” Joshua must have said to the Lord. “Will you say that again, and slowly, please, so I can let it sink in?” “Yes,” the Lord says, “Moses my servant is dead.” (Joshua 1:2) “Why Lord?” the bewildered young leader of Israel must be thinking. Moses dead? Why?