By the time you read this, $1,000 Coordinating Council Ministry Challenge checks, along with a letter from the Coordinating Council, will...

As Tulsa joins the growing list of communities rocked by gun violence and mass casualty events, the members and churches of Eastern...

In this time after Easter, it is fitting to dwell on the call to ministry.

With the dramatic drop in Covid-19 cases/deaths in recent weeks across Oklahoma and new guidelines relaxing mask mandates nationally, I...

Whether you like Tom Brady or not, there is no denying that he is the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time) in professional football. He is a...

I love words: spoken words and written words. Much of my life as a minister is about words. I write thousands of words each week for...

The story of Christmas is really many stories of Christ’s birth. Matthew’s gospel contains the conception of the baby Jesus by the Holy...

God who sees me, You are omniscient and omnipotent and yet you see my trials and my struggles. You walk with me and I lean on you. You...

A heartbreaking letter was recently found at a local ballpark. Written across three notecards, the letter reads as a desperate plea. It...

The story goes that as Harvard University added buildings around the famous Harvard Yard through the 19th century that they did not...

“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven” Ecclesiastes 3 begins, but do we truly believe that? We...

I know I cannot escape to the simplicity of the woods for the rest of my life, but there seems to need to be a middle ground.

A number of years ago (in a distant pre-children world), Kati and I visited Europe. It was our first trip there and I planned every...

My days are a fairly even balance of presbytery work and baseball at this point. For the last three years, our family has emerged from...

The musical Rent posed the question: “How do you measure a year in a life?” This is an apt question for the church, as well. How do we...