The Only Appropriate Response Is Humility

As I drive one morning to a preaching engagement, eastern sunlight gilds a foggy mist rising from the lawn on my left. Similar vapor ascends from a creek on the right. It is not fog, not a cloud: it gathers only above bodies of water or dew-laden lawns, returning to...

Seeking Answers, Finding God | Episode 108

A broken world has a lot of problems. Our goal then, is to find solutions to those problems, right? Wrong. Our goal should be finding our Deliverer before we find our solution. In doing that through prayer we will deal with a problem we sometimes neglect—us.  ...

Famous Failures: Part 2 | Episode 98

Barry covers Psalm 51 in part two of our series on David’s (the man after God’s heart) most famous failures. In this song he points out the insanely good deal we are offered (good news): we beg for mercy, and God gives it, and transformation. Our only requirement:...

Famous Failures: Part 1 | Episode 97

Barry starts a new series on King David’s famous failures and points out aspects of those failures that we commit regularly. Psalm 50 reminds us that while we prefer a talisman what we really need is a Judge whose mercy is as unlimited as his power.    ...

Secrets Are a Dirty Fuel Filter

“How long till we’re home?” “About 45 minutes.” A friend had asked the question from the van’s back seat just before what would turn out to be a dirty fuel filter began eroding the vehicle’s performance, most notably reducing its velocity from...