Tune My Heart Again
This historical devotional is about the hymn Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing. The key message of verse one is: Worship begins with remembering God’s abundant grace and asking Him to shape our hearts to praise Him rightly.
Hojo I can’t Sleep
This story is about a friend of Hojo who experiences a horrible loss of his twenty-two year old son to a suicide. Tom questions his faith and reaches out to Hojo.
Going Home to Asbury
I came home May 2nd, home to Asbury University for the commencement activities. I came home for the last time - perhaps. Home to Hughes Auditorium, where I have heard so many great chapel messages and saw so many lives changed – mine among them, because of those messages. This is a posting about Graduation 2026.
Speak the Name: Introduction
This is Trinity Sunday, and Matthew 28:16-20 and specifically verse 19 speak to the Trinity as it is revealed in Scripture, not through a single “definition verse,” but through a pattern of divine self-disclosure in which Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are each fully God, distinct from one another, and yet united as one God. This is the first of four postings of a sermon entitled "Speak the Name."
Speak the Name: Part One
This is the second posting of a sermon on Matt. 28:18; Gen. 1:1–2; Psalm 8:1.