FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: We won’t have to cross the Jordan alone!

Good week to all. Welcome to the “front porch.” One of the most humbling things I've ever heard was when my first cousin Janice came to me and told me about her mama’s final day.

OUT TO PASTOR: In my humble opinion

Whenever the mail comes, I’m always expecting “the check.” Rarely do I get it, but my expectation is that I will get a $10,000 check. I don’t know from whom. “What are you going to the mailbox for?” The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage would ask. “Are you looking for your $10,000 check?”

FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: The Holy Spirit’s not going to argue!

Good week to all. Welcome to the “front porch.” Have you ever noticed that the Lord never goes about proving His existence? He just declares it. Profoundly, emphatically.

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.