Posts from October 2025
SOUND WORDS, OCT. 19, 2025
FAITH AND EVIDENCE Several years ago, I decided I needed a hobby. I had many interests – basketball, fantasy baseball, and music – but I engaged in all of these pastimes with members of the church where I preached, or with fellow Christians in the area. I needed a hobby that would put me in contact with people from all walks of life. So I looked up the closest chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society, and over the last 17…
SOUND WORDS, OCT. 12, 2O25
THE LEADERS GOD WANTS God wants leaders. The Hebrews writer indicates this when he wrote, “Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you” (Heb 13:17). Here, we see that leaders keep watch over soul. They are accountable for what they do. In today’s cultural context,…
SOUND WORDS, OCT. 5, 2025
DIGNITY IN HUMANITY Dignity in maturity is something we admire when we see it, but it’s not guaranteed with age. I’ve noticed how often older believers will say things they’d never have said when they were younger, and then brush it off with, “Well, I’ve earned the right to speak my mind.” Or my personal favorite: “I’m too old to sugarcoat things anymore.” I guess tact has an expiration date. But somewhere along the way, we confused maturity with a…