Dear Brothers & Sisters, My children drew pictures of Super Dad for Father's Day. They are objectively bad art, but I love them, for they communicate the love and creativity of my children. I think of how our Father in Heaven looks at our attempts to paint His likeness in word and deed. Are we not all like kindergarteners trying to convey what is beyond our skill? Yet still he loves our attempts to honor Him. I do not say this to excuse misrepresentations of the Almighty God. We must always...

Dear Brothers & Sisters, There is, as they say, more than one way to skin a cat and there is also more than one way to worship falsely. 1) Offer homage and sacrifices to a false god (Exodus 20:3-6, 23) 2) Worship the true God (in name), but not according to his commands (Exodus 20:24-26, Isaiah 29:13). Many have fallen because they offered praise to God with their lips and even sacrificed in His name while they simultaneously refused to obey Him. God does not care for a form of worship, he...

Scripture Reading: Psalm 103 “I love You Lord, I bless Your Holy Name, I worship You.” These words roll so easily upon my tongue. There’s just one word that trips me up, a word so small, yet it means everything. All. All is not simple or tidy. All means even when the passion is gone and the happy glow has faded, when the worship set is over and the Sunday morning service done. All I have within me is what I want to give, yet so often all I give is some. But when I gaze upon you Lord and...