His Way with Words
The Prayer Life that Matters Most (and it Isn’t Yours)
Whose prayer life matters most? The sirens are blaring outside at this very moment. As I sit here at home, situated on the doorstep of Philadelphia—a town currently reeling over the police...
RTI Update: A Cure for Our Poor Communication Pandemic
Announcing a Cure If I were a medical researcher and came upon a sure-fire cure for COVID, I would be responsible to let people know. What good is a cure if people don’t know about it?...
Do You Know What the “Omnis” Are?
Where’s Elliot? If you have never left a child behind, then you are a better parent than me. Our third son, Elliot, was about 11 when I took him to a basketball game in which his brother...
Images of Valor
In a time when believers all too often view faith as a means to personal comfort and even prosperity and ease, more than as a call to war against the world, the flesh, and the devil, we do...
Checking Our World vs. Word Ratio
A Whisper into the Wind The world has a million microphones and they’re all in use. I confess that as a pastor I sometimes hear my voice as one little hand-held low-wattage mic up against...
An MRI, Panic, and the Fragility of Me
What Panic Feels Like I now know what an actual panic attack feels like, and I hope never to feel it again. But I do want to write about it in the hope that others might find a little help...
Aiming for God’s way through human words

His Way with Words offers perspectives that are relevant for our times. In it I try to express his (God’s) way—as best I can understand it—with my words. Disclaimer: the opinions expressed in this blog are not necessarily the opinions of my fellow elders. I am solely responsible for everything on this site.