We are deep into January, and I hope the New Year's resolutions you made are still going strong.

Recently, I've had occasion to ponder suffering in a deeper way than ever before.

Having read the text for my Sunday morning message this past week, I then did something I have never done before in 38 years of preaching:

As a politically divided nation prepares to inaugurate a new president in the wake of a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, a group of Christian leaders is hoping to ease tensions through prayer during three days of ecumenical, nonpartisan programming.

Kevin Wallace was crying. He asked God for forgiveness.

Moods are a very real part of our daily lives and an area we need to discern carefully.

Baptists are traditionally known for many things, among which are casseroles, potlucks, fried chicken, banana pudding (nanner pudding, when spoken familiarly), hacking preaching, shouting, camp meetings and a strong aversion to anything "new." Mind you, not all Baptists fit everything on that list; I myself only fall into the sporadic banana pudding/occasionally shouting/every now and then go to a camp meeting categories.

In the introduction to his book "The Content Trap," author Bharat Anand asks readers to consider what caused the Yellowstone fires of 1988, which lasted for months and destroyed over 1.3 million acres of the world's oldest, and one of our nation's most treasured, national parks.

Coming as it was from one of the most well-known pastors in the world, I could not have been more disappointed with what I was listening to.

About a month before the great December conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, NASA researchers announced a separate, unexpected discovery: evidence of light in deep space without an explainable source.

Our lives are filled with activity and hectic schedules, and we have only been given a certain amount of days to accomplish what God wants us to do.

We Americans really don't ever seem to agree on much, and 2020 did not improve that situation any.

I hope that everyone had an enjoyable holiday, but I must admit that it did not seem like a normal Christmas.

The news this week about COVID-19, known as the coronavirus, has certainly, to understate it, escalated: New infections, grimmer projections, lots and lots of cancellations (including — can you believe it? — March Madness).

Many religious leaders — some admired worldwide, others beloved only locally — died in 2020. Here are some of them.

Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life," starring Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed, is such a TV staple this time of year, it feels like just another Christmas decoration.

We've made it through another Christmas, and many of us were stressed trying to figure out what to give people who already have everything they need.

I really don't know a better way to communicate what is on my heart than to start by telling you, 2020, that we really just aren't that into you anymore. And it's really not us; it's you.

Documents and recordings of internal conversations obtained by the Times Free Press suggest Chitwood may have spent years misleading the government to avoid paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes.

A review of Chitwood's advice and products compared to guidance from national tax experts suggests he overemphasizes the risks of IRS enforcement during his nonprofit conferences.

George Frideric Handel was mainly a composer of operas.

This is the time of year when we display our Nativity sets, and it's common to see depictions on the front of Christmas cards that have Mary and Joseph in a stable with the Baby Jesus lying in a feeding trough, commonly referred to as a manger.

"For we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him" (Matthew 2:2).