“There are two choices in the Christian life. You can drift along, or you can employ your talents enthusiastically for the glory of the Lord……..God is not going to measure the use of our talents against those of other people, but only against what we...
The photo at the top of this post was sent to me by a friend several years ago. I’ve seen a lot of what people called their own “rock bottom”, but I had never seen one quite like this! This week we celebrate our 4th anniversary of Titus 2’s...
Thirteen years ago I engaged in some correspondence with a well-known social justice warrior (SJW) theologian/preacher. He did not like my read on what brings a person to salvation and a real relationship with Christ…..conviction, repentance, confession,...
Under the foggy haze of pain medication during my second child’s delivery a problem in delivery gave me the impression that I was dying….I was not alarmed. I thought to myself simply, “This is what it feels like to die……” and...
I shared this with a believer who expressed fawning adoration of several of her spiritual role models. “God has no grandchildren.” There is no such thing as being “grandfathered” in to the Kingdom of God. Each person is adopted as a child and...
Yoga: THINK Young Over Growing Aged You know, for years I resisted anything having to do with Yoga, associating it as I have with Eastern meditation techniques and Buddhist or New Age religion, which it has been and which can take one into a dangerous spiritual realm...
There are days when I begin discipleship work with someone new that we sit for three hours or longer….I have a prescribed list of topics that are necessary to cover in our first private session. Defining expectations, stating disclaimers, making the priorities and...
Civil War In the Church…..Really? Jesus was a Jewish rabbi. What was his entire ministry but a civil war against the way the Jewish faith had been corrupted, had rebelled against God, its leadership having become a colluding partner with the culture of its day? What...
Someone posted what seemed like a harmless math “IQ test” meme on Facebook: Several people quickly responded that it was a simple test and easy to discern. One gentleman, Richard P. Harris, who is apparently at least a math enthusiast if not a...
“The people we surround ourselves with either raise or lower our standards. They either help us to become the best version of ourselves or encourage us to become lesser versions of ourselves. We become like our friends. No man becomes great on his own. No woman...
