The Christmas story as it has been told in my lifetime, and yours, is filled with inaccuracies. Tradition continues to…
Righteousness exalts a nation, But sin is a disgrace to any people. (Prov. 14:34 NAS) (more…)
Some of my fondest, warmest memories are those from the Christmases of my youth. In those days, the 1950s, Christmas…
Words are powerful. When we assign words to a person we give them meaning, identity, and even authority. Think about…
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. After this, there were relationships. If you think about it…
Mark 12:28-30 “And one of the scribes came and heard them arguing, and recognizing that He had answered them well,…
Christians have a hard time loving themselves. Sometimes they don’t even like themselves. It is easy to understand why when…
In the first of this two-part series, we talked about theodicies. A theodicy is an attempt to defend God’s goodness…
How do we handle the idea of evil in the world? How do we reconcile all the evil with a…
Recently, my wife and I had dinner and Starbucks afterward with some good friends, Steve and Kathy. We had not…
The time has come for me to take a break from writing each week. I have enjoyed so much my…
I’ve met some agnostics before, but I’ve only met one or two people who actually claimed to be an atheist.…
Those of us who have been in Christ for any length of time have witnessed how God orchestrates things. He…
Anger. What do we do with this powerful emotion? Christians are not supposed to get angry, are they? This is…
This is a fair question. Why would anyone want to meet the Jesus you know? What does the world see,…
Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth (I John 3:18). During…