I don’t know why, but the phrase, “Packing heat,” is one of my all-time favorites. Perhaps in our politically correct age making such an admission might invite scorn, but I don’t have violence in mind.

The Season 4 series of Office Hours entitled "Jesus is Really Better" continues.

Over the years I have found that people in the church make a lot of assumptions about the people around them. I specifically have in mind the assumptions that people make about singles and married couples without children.

Rev. Dr. Brian Lee, the Pastor of Christ United Reformed Church in Washington D. C., and Westminster Seminary California alumnus, served as guest chaplain in the US House of Representatives.

As a pastor one of the things you can expect is that people will regularly come up with all sorts of ideas and inform you what the church needs to do. When people approached me with numerous ideas, I always had three responses.