“You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power….” (Revelation 4:11) Memorial Day frequently comes and goes for many of us without remembrance. We treat it casually, just another holiday to celebrate with cookouts, a day at the park, or shopping sales.   This morning, however, the gloom of rain has brought to my mind…

“When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and worshiped Him.” (Mark 5:6) Over the weekend, I learned that Dr. Harry Reeder, senior pastor of Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Ala., had been killed in a tragic car accident. It happened the day before the Lord called Dr. Timothy Keller, founder of Redeemer Church in New…

“Now it happened, when Saul had returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, ‘Take note! David is in the Wilderness of En Gedi.’” (1 Samuel 24:1) Have you ever taken a personal spiritual retreat? Just you and God in the wilderness? Last week, I joined my good friend Mary Ellen at the Billy Graham Training…

“So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, ‘He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.’” (John 8:7) I stood in the Siberian art gallery and stared. I lost complete track of time, all sense of where I was. I lost myself into the depth…

“But now, O Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You our potter; and all we are the work of Your hand.” (Isaiah 64:8) Alongside the lazy Nolichucky River in our county is an unremarkable field of tomato plants…until you start looking at the dirt. Scattered throughout the fertile loam are small broken pieces of clay pottery, evidence of human…