Resources for Practical Christian Living
Christians have hope in Jesus an anchor for the soul. We are firm and secure in Christ. We hang to the Lord by faith even during hard times, knowing that He hangs on to us. All Bob’s teaching is biblical and practical, aiming to help people know Jesus, follow Him in everyday life, and bless others. Here are some excerpts from his teaching, coaching, and counseling. He is available to speak on these and other topics at your church, class, conference, retreat, or other event. These items are listed in alphabetical order to make them easy to find. There is some overlap and repetition since they are drawn from teaching and pastoral ministry at different times and places and to different audiences.
- A Baseball Card and Our Value in Jesus
- A Fresh Start with Christ
- Accepted by God Our Father
- Accepted in God’s Beloved Son
- Adopted into God’s Family (Our Privileges)
- Adopted into God’s Family (Our Responsibilities)
- All My Life Is Portioned Out for Me
- All Your Anxieties
- An Evening at Jester III Prison
- Another Graduation at Prison
- Approved in Jesus: Christ Salvages Us
- Approved in Jesus: Justification and Sanctification
- Approved in Jesus: Preserved and Persevering
- Are You a Big-Godder?
- Ascribing Praise to Jesus (Part 1)
- Ascribing Praise to Jesus (Part 2)
- Asking, Seeking, Knocking
- Authentic Manhood & John Croyle
- Be Wise, Not Unwise
- Being a “Deacon” to People Who Have None
- Better Than Optimism
- Blessed Are God’s Sons and Daughters
- Bold Praying (Part 1)
- Bold Praying (Part 2)
- Bold Praying (Part 3)
- Boundaries: Building and Preserving Them
- Celebrating God’s Reformation
- Celebrating the Lord Using Psalm 104 (Part 1)
- Celebrating the Lord Using Psalm 104 (Part 2)
- Celebrating the Lord Using Psalm 104 (Part 3)
- Celebrating the Lord Using Psalm 104 (Part 4)
- Celebrating the Lord Using Psalm 104 (Part 5)
- Celebrating the Lord Using Psalm 104 (Part 6)
- Christ and GIGO (garbage in, garbage out)
- Christ and His Bible (Part 1)
- Christ and His Bible (Part 2)
- Christ Cares for Those Who Trust Him
- Christ Changes the Calendar
- Christ Is Everything: I Need Him
- Christ Is Everything: Jesus the Capstone
- Christ Is Everything: Our Living Hope
- Christ Is Everything: Resurrection Reality
- Christ is Good (Even in Hard Times)
- Christ is My Helper (Part 1)
- Christ is My Helper (Part 2)
- Christ is My Helper (Part 3)
- Christ is My Hope, My Trust, My Confidence
- Christ is My Inheritance
- Christ is My Rock
- Christ is My Strong Tower
- Christ is Our Refuge in Time of Trouble
- Christ Knows What He’s Doing (Hurricane Harvey Anniversary)
- Christ our Treasure
- Christ our Treasure (Expanded)
- Christ Prays and Is Present
- Christ the Great Reverser
- Christ the Joyful Healer
- Christ Will Not Forget You (Part 1)
- Christ Will Not Forget You (Part 2)
- Christ Will Not Forget You (Part 3)
- Christ Will Not Forget You (Part 4)
- Christ Will Not Forget You (Part 5)
- Christ-like Love: Discuss Without Arguing
- Christ-like Love: Giving and Praying
- Christ-like Love: Listening and Speaking
- Christ-like Qualities in Abigail (Part 1)
- Christ-like Qualities in Abigail (Part 2)
- Christ-likeness in Action
- Christ: His Wonderful Names (Part 1)
- Christ: His Wonderful Names (Part 2)
- Christ: The Lifter of My Head
- Christ: The Solid Rock
- Christ’s Friendship Toward Us
- Christ’s Parade to Calvary (Part 1)
- Christ’s Parade to Calvary (Part 2)
- Christ’s Parade to Calvary (Part 3)
- Christ’s Parade to Calvary (Part 4)
- Christ’s Providence (Like a Surprise Garden)
- Christ’s Way of Mercy
- Christ’s Wisdom in Proverbs (Part 1)
- Christ’s Wisdom in Proverbs (Part 2)
- Christian Living Lessons from Golf
- Christian Thanksgiving
- Churchill and Jesus’ Resurrection
- Columbus’ Voyage Reminds Me of Christ
- Come and Take It Flag Reminds Me of Christ
- Come, O Long-Expected Jesus
- Compassionate Service
- Connecting the Dots
- Coping With Covid-19
- Counting Our Blessings
- Depending on Jesus
- Did Christ Descend into Hell?
- Different Kinds of Storms
- Do the Next Thing: Elisabeth Elliot
- Do You Still Have No Faith?
- Don’t Be Afraid!
- Dying and Living in Christ
- Elder Brother Syndrome
- Elisabeth Elliot (learning from her)
- Encouragement in Christ’s Ascension
- Enduring In Christ
- Every Christian’s Benefit Package (Part 1)
- Every Christian’s Benefit Package (Part 2)
- Every Christian’s Benefit Package (Part 3)
- Eyewitnesses of Christ’s Resurrection
- Fairest Lord Jesus
- Favoritism Forbidden
- Favoritism is Wrong
- Focusing on Christ
- Following Christ in a World That Doesn’t (Part 1)
- Following Christ in a World That Doesn’t (Part 2)
- Forgiven and Forgiving (Part 1)
- Forgiven and Forgiving (Part 2)
- Forgiveness (Getting it from God, Showing it to Others)
- Forgiving Others
- Free in Jesus, but Never Independent of Him
- Frustration or Faith in Christ? (Psalm 37)
- Full Atonement: Can It Be? (Part 1)
- Full Atonement: Can It Be? (Part 2)
- Getting God’s Guidance (Part 1)
- Getting God’s Guidance (Part 2)
- Getting God’s Guidance (Part 3)
- Getting God’s Guidance (Part 4)
- Getting God’s Guidance (Part 5)
- Getting God’s Guidance (Part 6)
- Give Thanks in Good and Bad Times (Part 1)
- Give Thanks in Good and Bad Times (Part 2)
- Give Thanks in Good and Bad Times (Part 3)
- Giving Others the Benefit of Doubt
- Gladness in Christ
- God at Eye Level: More on Jesus’ Incarnation
- God Be With You
- God Designs the Detours
- God is Sovereign
- God is Sovereign (Proverbs) (Part 1)
- God is Sovereign (Proverbs) (Part 2)
- God Leads in Troubling Times
- God Was Already There
- God Welcomes Repenters
- God’s Deep, Deep Love
- God’s Secret Agents
- God’s Way Out
- God’s Wonderful Gift (Part 1)
- God’s Wonderful Gift (Part 2)
- Goforth’s Rules
- Gold from Giants of the Faith (Part 1)
- Gold from Giants of the Faith (Part 2)
- Good Times and Bad Times from the Lord’s Hand
- Grace Focused Optimism (Part 1)
- Grace Focused Optimism (Part 2)
- Graduation and Celebration at Prison
- Guided by Christ
- Guilty or Not Guilty?
- Hanukkah Points to Christ
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
- Haughty or Humble?
- Help Me, Lord! (Part 1)
- Help Me, Lord! (Part 2)
- Help Me, Lord! (Part 3)
- Helping One Another
- Hiding In Jesus
- Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost?
- Hope Beyond Frustration (Psalm 37)
- Hope in Jesus Christ
- Hospitality Ministry (Part 1)
- Hospitality Ministry (Part 2)
- How Should We Think of Christ?
- Human Plans and God’s Over-rulings
- Humble Servants of Jesus
- I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say (Part 1)
- I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say (Part 2)
- I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say (Part 3)
- I Love to Tell The Story (Part 1)
- I Love to Tell The Story (Part 2)
- I’ll Hasten to His Throne
- Idols of the Heart (Part 1)
- Idols of the Heart (Part 2)
- Immanuel Has Come!
- Immanuel: Ruler of the Waves
- In Christ’s Grip
- Jefferson and Jesus’ Resurrection
- Jesus Calms the Storm
- Jesus Gets Us
- Jesus Has Everlasting Compassion (Part 1)
- Jesus Has Everlasting Compassion (Part 2)
- Jesus in the Old Testament
- Jesus is Quiet Over You in His Love
- Jesus Our Defender and Protector
- Jesus Our Guide
- Jesus our Immanuel
- Jesus the Suffering Servant
- Jesus-like Love (Part 1)
- Jesus-like Love (Part 2)
- Jesus-like Love (Part 3)
- Jesus-like Love (Part 4)
- Jesus-like Love (Part 5)
- Jesus-like Love (Part 6)
- Jesus-like Service
- Jesus, Hurricanes, God’s Power & Peace
- Jesus, My Strength and Shield
- Jesus: Fishing for People (Part 1)
- Jesus: Fishing for People (Part 2)
- Jesus: Our Everlasting Father (Part 1)
- Jesus: Our Everlasting Father (Part 2)
- Jesus: Our Everlasting Father (Part 3)
- Jesus: Our Mighty God
- Jesus: Our Perfect Elder Brother
- Jesus: Our Wonderful Counselor
- Jesus: The Compassionate One
- Jesus: The Triple Cure For Our Knowing, Being, and Doing
- Jesus’ Blessing (Part 1)
- Jesus’ Blessing (Part 2)
- Jesus’ Blessing (Part 3)
- Jesus’ Disciples are on His Mission
- Jesus’ Disciples are Salt and Light
- Jesus’ Fireworks
- Jesus’ Incarnation: Another Parable
- Jesus’ Noble Ones
- Jesus’ Resurrection and Ascension
- Jesus’ Resurrection Gives Us Significance and Stability
- Jesus’ Resurrection: Something New Begins
- Jesus’ Search and Rescue
- Joy Because Hanukkah Points to Jesus
- Joy Before Jesus’ Awesome Throne
- Joy in Jesus, Physician of Repenting Sinners
- Joy in Jesus: Christian Self Image
- Joy in Jesus: Savior with Four Names
- Joy in Jesus: The God Who Hung on the Cross
- Joy in Jesus’ Great Promises
- Joy in Jesus’ Emptying Himself for Us
- Joy in Jesus’ Historicity
- Joy in Jesus’ Incarnation (Scriptures & Quotations)
- Joy in Troubles
- Joyful Life in Christ: Overview of Philippians
- Juneteenth and Liberty in Christ
- Kaspar’s Experiment: Christian Joy and Contentment
- Knowing God Through Prayer (A-C-T-S, Part 1)
- Knowing God Through Prayer (A-C-T-S)(Part 2)
- Learning from Katie Luther
- Listening to God
- Looking Back, Up, and Forward to Christ
- Love for God Should Drive Us
- Love God and Obey
- Love Increasing and Overflowing
- Love Takes Action
- Loving Enemies and Forgiving
- Loving God and Neighbor
- Luther Longs for Forgiveness
- Made Like the Returning Jesus
- Magnify Christ
- Magnify the Lord: Sometimes He Answers Before We Pray
- Magnify the Lord: Sometimes He Answers Speedily
- Make the Most of Every Opportunity
- Manhood: Bringing Strength into Balance
- Marks of Jesus’ Disciples
- Martha, Mary And Christ
- Meekness is Not Weakness (Psalm 37)
- More Beyond (Plus Ultra)
- More on Jesus’ Ascension
- Muggeridge and Jesus’ Resurrection
- My Brother and Sister’s Keeper (Part 1)
- My Brother and Sister’s Keeper (Part 2)
- My Jesus (Part 1)
- My Jesus (Part 2)
- Naomi: Hero of Faith
- New Every Morning is God’s Love (Part 1)
- New Every Morning is God’s Love (Part 2)
- New Every Morning is God’s Love (Part 3)
- New Every Morning is God’s Love (Part 4)
- No Dice
- No Fear in Christ
- Not Good Enough
- One Anothering, Part 1 (Fellowship Among Christ’s People)
- One Anothering, Part 2 (Fellowship Among Christ’s People)
- One Anothering, Part 3 (Fellowship Among Christ’s People)
- One Anothering, Part 4 (Fellowship Among Christ’s People)
- One Day At A Time
- Optimism in Jesus
- Our Bigger Inheritance In Jesus
- Our Declaration of Dependence (Part 1)
- Our Declaration of Dependence (Part 2)
- Our Imperishable Inheritance In Jesus
- Our Inheritance Cannot Spoil or Fade
- Our Inheritance is Guarded and So Are We
- Pastoral Counseling (Part 1)
- Pastoral Counseling (Part 2)
- Pastoral Counseling (Part 3)
- Perpetua: Hero of Faith in the Strong Savior
- Planning and Productive Paranoia (Part 1)
- Planning and Productive Paranoia (Part 2)
- Power for Living
- Prayer of Richard of Chichester
- Praying for Police (Scriptures to Use)
- Praying Psalm 44 (Part 1)
- Praying Psalm 44 (Part 2)
- Praying Psalm 44 (Part 3)
- Praying Together
- Precious in the Lord’s Sight
- Psalm 67 (Gathering in God’s Family, Part 1)
- Psalm 67 (Gathering in God’s Family, Part 2)
- Psalm 67 (Gathering in God’s Family, Part 3)
- Psalms (The Songs Jesus Sang)
- Rejected on Earth; Accepted in Heaven
- Rejoicing in Christ’s Providence
- Remaining and Abiding in Christ (Part 1)
- Remaining and Abiding in Christ (Part 2)
- Resist the Devil
- Rest in the Lord
- Returning Home to God
- Righteous and Pure in Christ
- Roger Woodward and Psalm 139
- Rosamond Herklots on Forgiveness
- Rule #6
- Safe in Christ (Part 1)
- Safe in Christ (Part 2)
- Safe in Christ (Part 3)
- Saved in the Furnace
- Secure in Christ
- See The Lamb of God (Part 1)
- See The Lamb of God (Part 2)
- See The Lamb of God (Part 3)
- See The Lamb of God (Part 4)
- Seeing Ourselves as God Does (Psalm 8)
- Seek First God’s Kingdom
- Serving Christ in Our Work (Part 1)
- Serving Christ in Our Work (Part 2)
- Serving Christ in Our Work (Part 3)
- Show Mercy to Others (Part 1)
- Show Mercy to Others (Part 2)
- Sins Blotted Out in Christ (Part 1)
- Sins Blotted Out in Christ (Part 2)
- Small But Smart (Part 1)
- Small But Smart (Part 2)
- Small But Smart (Part 3)
- Small But Smart (Part 4)
- Soar, Run, and Walk with Christ (Part 1)
- Soar, Run, and Walk with Christ (Part 2)
- Stumbling, Falling and Returning to God
- Take the Son: A Parable
- Teaching and Preaching the Bible (Part 1)
- Teaching and Preaching the Bible (Part 2)
- Teaching and Preaching the Bible (Part 3)
- Teaching and Preaching the Bible (Part 4)
- Teaching and Preaching the Bible (Part 5)
- Thank God: Life is Not Puzzling When We Know Our Purpose
- Thanksgiving to God for Dr. John Skilton
- Thanksgiving: Give Me That Book!
- The Best Optimism
- The Bible’s Cleansing Power
- The Blue Marble & Hurricane Harvey
- The Blue Marble Revisited and Peace in Christ
- The Christmas Spirit (Even in Summertime)
- The Faulty Walnut and God’s Remedy
- The Five Points of Calvinism (Part 1)
- The Five Points of Calvinism (Part 2)
- The Hem Of Jesus’ Garment
- The Lord and the Slow Oxcart
- The Lord is Faithful
- The Lord is Kind (Part 1)
- The Lord is Kind (Part 2)
- The Lord is Kind (Part 3)
- The Lord Opened Lydia’s Heart
- The Miracle of Christian Conversion
- The Power of Prayer and Reality of Revival
- The Power of Sentences
- The Strife Is Over, the Battle Done
- The Wall: A Parable
- Things to Pray For (Part 1)
- Things to Pray For (Part 2)
- Think and Behave Lovingly
- Think and Practice Whatever is Admirable
- Think and Practice Whatever is Excellent (Don't Envy or Boast)
- Think and Practice Whatever is Excellent (Patient and Kind)
- Think and Practice Whatever is Lovely and Loving
- Think and Practice Whatever is Noble
- Think and Practice Whatever is Pure
- Think and Practice Whatever is Right
- Think and Practice Whatever is True
- Think Before Speaking
- Three Categories of God’s Law
- Three Uses of God’s Law
- Tongue Control
- Total Forgiveness in Jesus: The Rooster Story
- True Optimism in Christ
- Trust and Obey
- Under Jesus’ Wings (Part 1)
- Under Jesus’ Wings (Part 2)
- Under Jesus’ Wings (Part 3)
- Understand the Lord’s Will
- United Praying in Troubling Times
- Unshackled!
- Update on Prison Work at Jester III in Richmond, TX
- Vic Williams’ Home-going Message (audio)
- Walking in Christ’s Light
- Watergate “Proves” Jesus’ Resurrection
- Ways to Choose Happiness in Your Life
- We Can’t Expect it to Last
- What Christ Does with Our Sins (Part 1)
- What Christ Does with Our Sins (Part 2)
- What Christ Does with Our Sins (Part 3)
- What Christ Does with Our Sins (Part 4)
- What God Is to Me: Elisabeth Elliot (Part 1)
- What God Is to Me: Elisabeth Elliot (Part 2)
- What God Is to Me: Elisabeth Elliot (Part 3)
- When King Uzziah Died, I Saw the Lord
- When We Are Frustrated (Psalm 37)
- Whiter Than Snow
- Why Do Christians Suffer?
- Why Is Love the Greatest?
- Wisdom From Earlene
- You Can’t Always Say What You Want
Ministry Updates
We regularly publish a ministry update via email. The list below provides access to the most recent items.
- February 2020 Ministry Update (Enduring Love)
- December 2019 Ministry Update (Waiting on God)
- November 2019 Ministry Update (Thanksgiving)
- October 2019 Ministry Update (Yom Kippur)
- August 2019 Ministry Update (Psalm 8)
- June 2019 Ministry Update (Prison Work)
- May 2019 Ministry Update (An Aha Moment)
- April 2019 Ministry Update (Easter, New Beginnings)
- March 2019 Ministry Update (Joy)
- February 2019 Ministry Update (Love)
- November 2018 Ministry Update (Golden Booklet)
- October 2018 Ministry Update (Ordinary Miracles)
- September 2018 Ministry Update (Prayer Items)
- August 2018 Ministry Update (Prison Ministry)
- July 2018 Ministry Update (Police Chaplaincy)
- June 2018 Ministry Update (GIGO)
- May 2018 Ministry Update (Missions Sunday)
- April 2018 Ministry Update (Sunday School)
- February 2018 Ministry Update (Prison Ministry)
- Christmas 2017 Ministry Update (Billy Joel)
- December 2017 Ministry Update (Looking Back, Up, and Ahead)
- Thanksgiving 2017 Ministry Update
- November 2017 Ministry Update (Re-starting Website)