Sunshine, and rainbows, and cotton candy…soft music, champagne and candlelight…there are so many fluffy words by which we talk about and around love, but do not name the reality of love. This is why I do not allow couples to write their own marriage vows because th......

The congregation I served during the nineties in Buffalo, New York was the downtown church of influence and it had its share of movers and shakers.  It also had a wide variety of all kinds of folks.  We had a member named Doris.  ......

Whenever I hear the word pure my mind hearkens back to the old Ivory soap ad campaign and its proud claim that it was 99.44 percent pure and to prove it, look, the soap floats.  I was never exactly sure how that was supposed to demonstrate p......

Two people can look at the exact same thing and see something completely different.A person walking down the street might see a stranger. Someone else might see a neighbor.One person might see a problem. Another might see a person who need......

In sermons I have been known to quote esteemed philosophers and poets, theologians and scholars.  Today I am turning to an alternative music band.  Hey, you take inspiration from wherever it comes.  I know ver......