

The Struggle between Accountability and Forgiveness
It's been five years since one of the most heinous racial killings in U.S. history, when a white supremacist murdered nine individuals attending a Bible Study at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. The massacre shocked the nation. I believe much of the shock was due to the brazen nature of the attack (occurring in a church during a Bible study he had been welcomed into) and the other was the killer’s blatant confession that he was tryin


Musing for 1/20/2021
There was a man, a baker by trade, who taught Sunday school at his church and served on a church committee. One day, while riding a train, he was approached by an overzealous woman he’d never seen before who was trying to evangelize people. She asked him, “What work do you do for God?” He replied, “I bake bread.” She said, “I don’t mean your trade, but what service do you do for our Savior?” “I bake bread,” he said. She tried again, “I mean, how are you seeking to glorify Chr