Friendship House MSU predominantly serves International visiting scholars, graduate students, Ph.D. students, post-­‐doctoral students...

An architect of the “Boston miracle,” Rev. Jeffrey Brown started out as a bewildered young pastor watching his Boston neighborhood fall...

In 1946, Czeslaw Godlewski was a member of a young gang that roamed and sacked the German countryside. On an isolated farm, they gunned...

I am going to delve into another sensitive area in this blog post.  I grew up hearing from black people that we don’t have the ability to...

A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. The letter...

This cartoon sums up where so many congregations begin the call process. How can we call pastor with tons of personality, who inspires us...

Hugh Lattimer once preached before King Henry VIII. Henry was greatly displeased by the boldness in the sermon and ordered Lattimer to...

If you are feeling the weight of this time in our country and feeling a sense of hopelessness, find comfort in this, God is still seated...

In this post, we continue our discussion on prayer. This post is a four-part series on praying with boldness through problems.  The...

People today are constantly trying to figure out this elusive group.  Here is a great video on Millennials in the workplace. Other posts...

IM000083.JPG Meet and greet are opportunities for you to give people a chance to know more about you. It also gives you the opportunity...

Two men who lived in a small village got into a terrible dispute that they could not resolve. So they decided to talk to the town sage....

In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the Desert of Judea  2 and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven, is near.”  3...

Most people do not believe them when I tell them I am an introvert.  I get this response you can’t be you seem so normal.  You should...

I have this dream of serving a group of saints in a congregation, retiring there, celebrating with them at a big, tearful farewell party...

British sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein was once visited in his studio by the renowned author and fellow Briton, George Bernard Shaw. The...

Dr. Robert P. Wilder, the founder, and for many years the influential head of the Student Volunteer Movement, once said: “When I was...

German pastor Martin Rinkart served in the walled town of Eilenburg during the horrors of the Thirty Years War of 1618-1648. Eilenburg...

Sir John Franklin lived an exciting life of adventure in the British Navy, which took him to many parts of the world. As a signal...

For those followers who have wondered what my sermons are like.  Here is a link to the Reformation Service I preached at Immanuel...