I think it is good to remind ourselves that there is One who remains in office for all of time. This One, who is the King of kings and Lord of lords, presides with unimpeachable sovereignty, despite worldly affairs and public opinion.

Let’s face it, John Calvin’s Institutes is intimidating to many people, certainly to the uninitiated lay person. I suspect that there are also many of us in ministry who find it easier to quote Calvin than it is to actually read him.

When meeting with an older man or woman, particularly a leader in the business world, we have a golden opportunity to ask thoughtful questions.

Pastors and others in ministry know this all too well. The pervasive value behind whatever goes on in the church is its perceived practicality. Every time a sermon is preached, a bible study is taught or a small group is administered, the pastor stands against the proverbial door and the congregation measures his or her growth against the standards of this one core value.

Wherever harmony, peace, and the bond of love exist between a wife and husband, all good things will flow together, and they will become impregnable to every assault, being fortified by the great and unassailable wall of divine harmony.

The earliest followers of Christ were in a precarious position. A tiny minority in a hostile pagan culture, they were reviled because of their allegiance to Jesus Christ….

As a “mystery,” the Catholic Mass is by definition beyond human comprehension; yet, when Protestants explain what happens in the Mass, we often get it wrong, propagating misnomers that directly contradict the explicit teaching of the Catholic Church. Here are the big three.

Please pray for my preparation to preach this Sunday morning at Community Fellowship in West Chicago. I intend to open Ezekiel 37:1-10 in a sermon titled “How Dead Bones Live.”

Tuesday morning, before the sun rose, Fr. Claude left the rectory at 5 am for the five-hour drive northward from Evansville Indiana, followed by a five-hour taping. “The main reason we made it is not for publicity,” said Fr. Claude; “we just wanted it to be a video that defended our mother, the Church.”

I just learned from my friend, Frank Beckwith, that you can now browse portions of Journeys of Faith, a book for which I am one of the four main contributors. It is accessible on the HarperCollins website…