Category Finding Faith in America
A Grateful 4th of July
The 4th is especially meaningful to me this year because of the books I have been reading and listening to lately. I just finished a work of children’s fiction about Hungary during World War II (and grieved as I thought…
A Message from John Winthrop – Choose Life
Tomorrow we, as a nation, celebrate Independence Day for the 243rd time. For the last two days, I have been sharing excerpts from John Winthrop’s sermon he gave to his fellow Puritan travelers on the Arabella when they crossed the…
A Message from John Winthrop – A City on a Hill
Yesterday we talked about Puritan John Winthrop’s sermon “A Model of Christian Charity,” which he spoke to his fellow travelers on the Arabella in 1630. Yesterday we talked about not embracing the world. Today we talk about being a city…
A Message from John Winthrop – Don’t Embrace This Present World
As Ray began his sermon yesterday, he asked us to imagine being one of one hundred people who were all together on one side of our church’s auditorium — for two months without leaving. Then he told us that this…
Finding Ways to Say Jesus
When Ray and I lived in Mississippi, Ray was a campus minister. He preached sermons only rarely. One Sunday he had the opportunity to preach at our local church. The next Sunday a preacher in another town needed someone to…