Assessing Matthew Vines’ “God and the Gay Christian” Part III – Jesus and Homosexuality
May 9, 2014 | A Cuppa Joe
The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs us, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the…
Assessing Matthew Vines “God and the Gay Christian” Part II: Homosexuality and Leviticus
May 7, 2014 | A Cuppa Joe
God and the Gay Christian, Matthew Vine’s new and well publicized book, argues that we should reconsider what the Bible says about homosexuality. His…
Assessing “God and the Gay Christian” – Part I
May 5, 2014 | A Cuppa Joe
Why Bother? Today’s church is being asked – pressured, really – to follow the culture’s lead, and the culture is leading towards wholesale approval…
Worship and Recovery
April 3, 2014 | Relational Matters
Guest posting by Renee Dallas Note from Joe: I’ve received a number of messages from wives asking for help dealing with their own pain over…
World Vision, Same Sex Marriage and Us: Responding or Reacting?
March 27, 2014 | Relational Matters
Many of you e-mailed me privately or messaged me about my response to World Vision over their policy change towards hiring people in same sex…
A Doll’s Lesson
March 3, 2014 | Keeping It Clean
Jan Frank, a terrific author, speaker and therapist dealing with women’s issues, made a point decades ago during one of her presentations that I’ve…
The Writing on My Heart
February 10, 2014 | Keeping It Clean
“I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be…
Strangely Dim
February 3, 2014 | Keeping It Clean
“The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if…
The Phil Robertson Controversy: No More Ducking the Issue
December 28, 2013 | A Cuppa Joe
Apart from a radio interview with Bible Answer Man I’ve been ducking the Phil Robertson/Duck Dynasty controversy for over a week now, first because I…
Lessons from “A Christmas Carol” Part One: Unchained
December 16, 2013 | Keeping It Clean
This week leading up to Christmas we’ll be looking at lessons we can glean from Dickens A Christmas Carol. Hope you enjoy these! “I…
With Love, Disappointed
November 21, 2013 | Relational Matters
“For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia — At my first answer no…
The Angry Wife
November 20, 2013 | Marriage Matters
It seems nothing works with her. A kind word is met with a rebuff. Touching and lovemaking are out of the question. Any little…
The Default Principle
November 18, 2013 | Keeping It Clean
When you discover behavior that delivers pleasurable impact, your brain will crave a repetition of the impact. Accept this fact and prepare for it,…
Bless the Jerk
November 7, 2013 | Relational Matters
There’s no way to navigate a life without getting bumped, bruised or outright wounded by people. No one’s exempt, and generally, the closer we…