As I sit in my living room chair this morning, and await with prayerful dread the impending verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial, and—whatever the verdict—its inevitable effects upon the...
Grace and Race
The Art of L-evation: Helping to Extinguish Our Hellish Racial Fires
Wielding a Kitchen Extinguisher Back in 1999, our wood stove overheated, igniting our fireplace wall. While we waited for hose-bearing firefighters to arrive, my then 16-year-old son and I...
Welcome One Another by Stopping Church Arguments
A Quick Review In my intermittent One Another series I’ve established that Romans 14 addresses how to handle cross-cultural and convictional disagreements. God tells us there not to fight...
I Was, and You…
As I have stated elsewhere, our church’s “mission statement”—which is simply our way of putting a biblical gospel mission into our own words—is: “Worshiping God and welcoming all, with...
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.