I pray that your 2014 is off to a great start, and I’m so grateful to God to be part of life’s journey with you. I know that some of you are wearied by the persistently gray and wintry weather.…

Happy New Year from Boston! I trust that you’ve enjoyed friends and family over the Christmas season. I certainly delighted in all of FBC’s holiday events and observances. 2013 is a year that I always will remember with great fondness,…

What a great day it’s been at First Baptist!  Starting with Christ-centered worship and preaching and our annual Christmas Brunch fellowship, today was a true blessing.  Tonight’s Christmas Concert, Let Earth Receive Her King, will likely be one of my…

Back in 1996, Eileen and I were driving from Raleigh, North Carolina – where I had preached for the evening service – to the mountains of East Tennessee for an extended family gathering. It was Christmas Eve, and late at…

Nashville and Opryland were an absolute blast! Three photos from my phone accompany this post. Enjoy. For those of you who weren’t able to make the trip this year, just wait ‘til next year. Even better. May I suggest something…

O.K., it’s winter. I know, not technically, but in just about every other sense. Ice. Snow. Record amounts in Western Kentucky for early December. Enough to cause some travel problems, but also enough to transform the local landscape with picture-perfect…

My family and I just left the movie theater, where our church was well represented: FBC’ers made up about one-third of the audience of the early evening showing of the 3-D version of Disney’s newest film. It was a real…

I hope that you’re happy with your holiday plans for this week. Many of us will be traveling; many of us will be hosting family and friends who have traveled to be here. We’re blessed to live in a nation…

It’s high time for the church to get back to basics. Our Presbyterian friends – not from one of the more conservative branches – decided to exclude “In Christ Alone” from their new hymnal. Here’s what went down. The hymnal…

Sunday afternoon was a bit unnerving for many of us. My cell phone sounded from the lunch table its version of a siren, and warned via text message: “Tornado Warning. Take shelter now.” Unquote. I know that our God is…