Introduction Many in the church know that ordination is important, but they may struggle to articulate why that is the case. Ordination is one of the hidden gems of…

Introduction When I first started in ministry, I had the opportunity to fill the pulpit of a very gifted preacher while he was on vacation. As the day approached,…

Introduction “It had hardly begun,” Jack E. Davis says in The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea, “when just before midnight on August 17, 1969, Hurricane Camille swept…