FRONT-PORCH GOSPEL: Don’t ask the lighthouse to move!

Good week to all. Welcome to the “front porch.” There’s an old story of a warship out on the sea on a foggy night. The captain sees a light just ahead that is on a collision course with his ship. Immediately the captain radios ahead, “Sir,” he says, “we are on a collision course.

HOPE FOR TODAY: Let’s move in together

Clinical Psychologist Meg Jay writes about a young lady named Jennifer in a New York Times column. She was one of Meg’s clients who lived with her boyfriend four years prior to getting married. Then, a year after the wedding, Jennifer showed up for a session on Meg’s couch.

OUT TO PASTOR: The parsonage kitchen shutdown threat

A certain situation has been building in the Parsonage for the last several months. At first, I did not think it too serious but alas, we have reached a terrible impasse. Quite frankly, I’m not exactly sure what to do.

FRONT PORCH GOSPEL: ‘I’ll stick with Solomon’

Good week to all. Welcome to the “front porch.” During the recent sickness and passing of my father-in-law Bill Dickinson, his preacher-son Billy sent out a text to several of the family members expressing that – through it all – the Lord has been good to us.

HOPE FOR TODAY: When only a miracle will do

For nearly 10 years I served inmates in our small rural county jail as a minister, and saw over 100 of them come through our Bible studies and annual Christmas outreaches. They were there because of drugs, alcohol, theft, sexual violations and more. Men and women. Young and old.

OUT TO PASTOR: Stuck between a virus and a varmint

Normally, I’m not a superstitious sort of a person. But then again there is a good case to be made that I am really not normal. I must confess, I do have a sliver of superstition running through me somewhere.