Category Archives: Reformed faith

Leadership and Leaders

Posted on June 30, 2013 by

There are many who are called to positions of leadership. Yet leadership is not about a title. It is not about gaining a consensus. Leadership is about burden, conviction, a fire burning deeply, a holy discontentment, a righteous indignation. There … Continue reading →

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Praying for Denver and Our Nation

Posted on July 20, 2012 by

Once again we are awakened with chilling news of a great tragedy that has beset our country. The shooting at the cinema in Aurora, Colorado has left us all horrified at the sheer brutality and utter disregard for life that … Continue reading →

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Praying for Denver and Our Nation

Posted on July 20, 2012 by

Once again we are awakened with chilling news of a great tragedy that has beset our country. The shooting at the cinema in Aurora, Colorado has left us all horrified at the sheer brutality and utter disregard for life that … Continue reading →

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Moving: from mikemilton.org to michaelmilton.org

Posted on May 2, 2011 by

“For everything there is a season, and la time for every matter under heaven…a time to keep silence, and a time to speak” (Ecclesiastes 3.1, 7 ESV). With the roll out of our new RTS page, my own homepage and … Continue reading →

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Meditations on Roses, Dante and Psalm 40, while sick and rocking on the front porch of “the Rest Home for Confederate Soldiers”

Posted on April 28, 2011 by

Barbara Bush, Pope John Paul II, and Olympiad are bursting forth in magnificent color before my very eyes. I sit on our front porch, seeing my reflection in the iPad screen where I also barely see the words I am … Continue reading →

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Are You Called to be a Military Chaplain?

Posted on April 4, 2011 by

Frequently I am asked to share my experience of the call to the chaplain ministry. In my case, I have served and continue to serve as a US Army Reserve chaplain, not an active duty chaplain. Yet the call to … Continue reading →

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Death and Taxes

Posted on April 1, 2011 by

Tax time is upon us. Opinions concerning taxation range from Coolidge’s estimation that “Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery;” to FDR’s remark that “Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership … Continue reading →

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Facing the Fire and Living with Lions (Part 1)

Posted on March 16, 2011 by

I don’t know the future, but I know the One who hold the future! Continue reading →

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A Season to Remember: An Ash Wednesday Message to the Anglican Communities of Charlotte

Posted on March 11, 2011 by

Joel 2:1-2,12-17; 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10 Many of us instinctively feel the need for seasons. We can look at my own state of North Carolina as an example.  Sociologists call this the “J Curve” effect. New Yorkers head straight down 95 … Continue reading →

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A Mission Conference to Remember

Posted on February 28, 2011 by

I have just completed preaching a missions conference at Covenant Community Church in Scottsdale, Arizona. I was so impressed by a congregation giving away more than 17% of their operating budget to missions, plus they give faith promise giving. Is … Continue reading →

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