Chaplains Corner

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.” On my last night as a hospital chaplain in seminary, I received a call around 3:00 am.  It had already been a hectic night.  It seemed like...

“…in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.” Isaiah 30:15 Sometimes, the hardest thing to do is to be quiet when you feel you have been wronged. It is human nature to defend our honor, especially when our reputation and credibility have been attacked. We don’t...

“What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: “‘The parents eat sour grapes,    and the children’s teeth are set on edge’? 3 “As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, you will no longer quote this proverb in Israel. Ezekiel 18:2-3...

“See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.” Exodus 23:20 These past two weeks have been traveling hell for me. I will spare you the details and summarize it this way: delays, cancellations, and...

And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another… Hebrews 10:24-25 U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy announced that America has a loneliness...

But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.Genesis 19:26 Recently, I visited my family’s coastal hometown in South Georgia and while there I stopped by my grandparents’ house. Over the years, I have driven by the house and looked at it, but I have not...

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2 Currently in the Christian faith, we are in a season known as...

Philippians 3:13-14 “…I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize…” Happy New Year! Typically, around this time of year many set...

Hebrews 11:1 (King James Version) Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. The holiday season is upon us, and I have already overplayed the Temptations’ infamous gospel version of Silent Night! I have always loved this time of...

We are very quick to cancel people. Even celebrities that died long ago are not safe. Cancel culture is nothing new. There is a story about a man named Zacchaeus who lived in a Palestinian city called Jericho around 30 C.E. Zacchaeus was a wealthy tax collector; the...