God’s Grace Doesn’t Require Additional Rules

“Sesame Street” was one of my favorite television shows as a child. The segment on the show that I most looked forward to seeing regularly was the one where characters would figure out what object in a group of four things didn’t belong. The lyrics...

Do You Legislate Your Beliefs or Live Them?

There are multiple issues on which the U.S. Supreme Court has made rulings or will make rulings in the very near future. I do not wish to address the specific cases, but rather the dominant attitude of separation that seems to be regularly espoused by some Christians....

Protecting Your Church in Charleston Aftermath

Through the actions of one reprehensible person, our nation has been reminded that evil is alive and well. Understandably, this unconscionable act of killing nine people during a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina,...

Resurrecting Martin Luther King’s Message of Love

My role model for what a pastor and leader should be is Martin Luther King Jr. One of my proudest moments as a 17-year-old teenager was, after delivering my first sermon at my home church, an older deacon that I admired said that I reminded him of King in my delivery...