(about 800 words to help start your post-election life) The Man Who Vanquished the Gladiators It was around 400AD, and the Roman Empire was in decline, though its sinful indulgences...
The Christian Life
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...
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.