For God’s Sake: Serving a hungry congregation
October 2, 2023
In 2005, celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver, launched a bold initiative to improve the substandard quality of food served to children in Britain’s school cafeterias. A decade later he reported that his ini…
For God’s Sake: Slowly, steadily, God has brought people to COMPASS
September 11, 2023
I had been a pastor for eight years before I enrolled in a seminary.
When I first met the seminary’s director of church planting, he said, “Have you ever given any thought to planting a church? You…
For God’s Sake: ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved’
September 5, 2023
Last week as Hurricane Idalia roared up the gulf coast of Florida, my phone chimed with messages and calls from family and friends asking about our wellbeing.
For God’s Sake: Walking through the valley of the shadow of death
August 21, 2023
It is Wednesday, August 16, my wife and I are in Mooresville IN having just buried her father. Russ Lambert was 106 years old.
Recently, I was thinking about all that he had witnessed in his lifetim…
For God’s Sake: Making quiet time is important
August 7, 2023
A friend recently asked me what I was reading in my “daily devotions.” Some of you are now waiting for my answer but others of you are wondering what we are talking about. I remember as a new convert…
For God’s Sake: God deserves our best
July 31, 2023
Guest preachers have an advantage over the resident preacher. A guest preacher can drop in, speak boldly to a congregation on some controversial issue, then go home leaving the resident preacher to d…
For God’s Sake: Lessons in importance of prayer
July 24, 2023
“You do not have because you do not ask,” says the New Testament letter of James as it chides its readers for their prayerlessness, “You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly to spend it on…
For God’s Sake: , Christ uses rain to teach God’s children about their Father’s common grace
July 18, 2023
With all the rain we have been having this summer on the Florida panhandle, I am giving serious consideration to building an ark!
Anyone who knows me knows that me building anything is a disaster w…
For God’s Sake: Object of our desire will be Christ
July 10, 2023
I am crazy about aircraft of all kinds but get particularly excited over military aircraft.
Living in Navarre nestled among the many military bases and airfields, I’m three-for-three in the real es…
For God’s Sake: Trust in Him
July 3, 2023
These days, there seems to be a credulity gap between what people say and what they do.
The credulity gap to which I am referring is when a person or an institution champions an ideal but acts in a…