The Conservative Dinosaur
November 14, 2014 | A Cuppa Joe
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving. -Elizabeth Cady Stanton A woman stomped…
Releasing Your Wounder
November 13, 2014 | Relational Matters
We’ve all got them – wounds, past injuries of the soul that still show themselves, either in the way we relate, or the pain…
Sound Doctrine: Endangered Species, Essential Structure
November 12, 2014 | Doctrinal Matters
All a man, a church or a denomination needs to guarantee deterioration of doctrine is to take everything for granted and do nothing. The…
“Tear Down This Wall”
November 10, 2014 | Keeping It Clean
Walls work both ways. Some keep enemies out, guarding the freedom and safety of the citizens, while others make captives out of free men.…
New Whine
November 7, 2014 | A Cuppa Joe
The blogosphere’s a glorious anarchy, which is why I cherish it. Anyone with something to say gets a shot, then the online community is…
The Unnatural Drifter
November 3, 2014 | Keeping It Clean
“People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in…
As We Forgive Those Who Trespass Against Us (repeat chorus as needed)
October 30, 2014 | Relational Matters
I’m still working on three things Jesus demands from me: that I not worry (Matthew 6:34) that I turn the other cheek (Matthew 5:39)…
Amazing Grays
October 29, 2014 | Doctrinal Matters
Our local paper ran a feature story awhile back, written by a self-identified evangelical Christian and titled “There is Something in the Air. Can You…
I Was Born Again This Way
October 27, 2014 | Keeping It Clean
“And having been set free from sin you became slaves of righteousness.” -Romans 6:18 Pop singer Lady Gaga made a huge splash with a…
The Best of Times; The Worst of Times
October 24, 2014 | A Cuppa Joe
I’m having a blessed weekend in Colorado Springs, speaking at Calvary Worship Center, a Calvary Chapel congregation out here in the Springs. The weather…
Your Dark Stinky Basement
October 23, 2014 | Relational Matters
Years ago I leased office space in a charming old historical building in our city. It was a three story affair with nooks and…
Beastly Me
October 22, 2014 | Doctrinal Matters
So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. – Psalms 73:22 David was having one of those days, one…
To Love, Honor, and Scrutinize
October 21, 2014 | Marriage Matters
“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.” -Benjamin Franklin Some of us have that backwards. We marry without duly scrutinizing our…
Where Love and Sorrow Meet
October 20, 2014 | Keeping It Clean
“When Jesus calls a man”, Dietrich Bonheoffer said, “He bids him come and die.” No getting around that. The claims of God on our…