Avoiding OffenseAugust 22, 2019As many of you know, I have a wonderful daughter Jill. She suffers from severe physical and mental disabilities. She and my wife Brenda are the loves of my life.   One o...  Read More

WoodstockAugust 11, 2019It is hard to believe that 50 years ago this week I was at Woodstock.As August 1969 rolled around, some of my friends told me about a music festival that was coming to the Cats...  Read More

I loved my father in a deep and tender way and longed to spend time with him. But my dad seemed oblivious to all of this and with few exceptions he spent virtually no time with me. He attended one Lit...  Read More

 “What a lot of people don’t understand is that a person contemplating suicide is in overwhelming emotional pain and they think very differently than people who are rational. Suicide seems like the be...  Read More

If we are honest, we all love a good redemption story. Even Hollywood could not have written a better one than we watched yesterday, as Tiger Woods did what many thought he would never do again. He wo...  Read More

I want to personally thank you for your prayers for Lon Solomon Ministries. By His grace, God is choosing to bless our ministry and "expand its coast" as Jabez prayed. We have the chance to go daily M...  Read More

In a letter dated March 31, 1840, the great Scottish preacher Robert Murray McCheyne wrote the following letter to a suffering parishioner:"You cannot love trouble for its own sake; bitter must always...  Read More

"And be kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you."  Ephesians 4:32This morning, I read an editorial in USA Today that took me back 30 years in time....  Read More

In the fall of 1969, during my junior year at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, my girlfriend became pregnant.  I knew that I was clearly the father, but as an unbeliever with no moral ...  Read More

As every new year rolls around, I think we all try to make some kind of a New Year’s resolution or at least commit to trying to lose a few pounds! (I know I do!)But there is one thing that I can think...  Read More

"Which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords." I Timothy 6:15 Calling God "sovereign" is just a fancy theological way of sayi...  Read More

"Thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah, and he did what was good and right and true before the Lord his God. And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, in the law and in the ...  Read More