Welcome to our original blog! As of 2022, our current blog, Words of Grace, is hosted on Substack. We hope you are encouraged by our posts from 2017-2021.
Reflections on My 38 Years of Youth Ministry
Ecclesiastes 1:9 – “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” In 1980, I entered the ministry working with teens in Waco, Texas. In 2018, I am still in ministry working with teens in Ridgewood, New Jersey....
It’s Well Worth Your Time
So, I have a horrible memory. Because of this, it absolutely amazes me to hear someone recall the exact date and place that an event happened five years ago, or to witness someone recite every Yankees player who has a retired number. I'm not that person. I'm the...
The Gift and Joy of Fasting
Last week in our sermon series in the Gospel of Mark, we came across this verse in Mark 2:20: “The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.” Jesus is refuting the accusations of the Pharisees that his disciples...