Right Beliefs, Wrong Attitude
June 16, 2016 | Relational Matters
The children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left. – I…
Horror in Orlando: Let the Scapegoating Begin
June 15, 2016 | Doctrinal Matters
“Opportunistic” means “exploiting chances offered by immediate circumstances without reference to a general plan or moral principle.” “Scapegoating” means “the practice of singling out…
Talking About Transgender: Why we Must, Where we Stand (Part Three of a Five-Part Series)
June 9, 2016 | Doctrinal Matters
Tolerance is a belief in nothing. When we preach tolerance without declaring truth, we have set ourselves up to never set a boundary. We…
Talking About Transgender: Why we Must; Where we Stand (Part Two of a Five-Part Series)
May 27, 2016 | A Cuppa Joe
In Part One of this five part post, we looked at Biblical precedence for speaking out on moral issues, a precedence we need to take…
Talking about Transgender: Why we Must, Where we Stand (Part One of a Five-Part Series)
May 26, 2016 | Relational Matters
If you can keep your head When all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you… -Rudyard Kipling If you believe there…
Another Spirit
May 18, 2016 | Doctrinal Matters
But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land where…
The Vanishing Hymnal
May 17, 2016 | A Cuppa Joe
There are traditions, then there are essentials, and a wise church knows the difference. Mine did. When I began fellowshipping as a teenager, our…
Discernment: The Dying Dinosaur? Part III: Discerning our Hearts
May 13, 2016 | A Cuppa Joe
If we want to know truth and live right, then we’ve got to develop our ability to sort truth from error, and wrong from…
Discernment: The Dying Dinosaur? Discerning the Times (Part Two of a Three Part Series)
May 11, 2016 | Doctrinal Matters
And admit that the waters around you have grown Accept it soon, you’ll be drenched to the bone If your time to you is…
Discernment: The Dying Dinosaur? (Part One of a Three Part Series)
May 10, 2016 | Marriage Matters
Discernment is not knowing the difference between right and wrong. It is knowing the difference between right and almost right. -Charles Spurgeon This isn’t…
“The Lord Hath Need of Him”
April 25, 2016 | Keeping It Clean
Ever read a verse an entirely new way? I just did, and it’s been simmering in my head ever since. For sure, we need…
Keeping it Real
March 21, 2016 | Keeping It Clean
Believe it or not, that tow-headed 17 year old is me playing Oscar Madison in a 1971 production of The Odd Couple at Wilson…
Beyond Belief
March 16, 2016 | Doctrinal Matters
“The word ‘evangelical’ has become almost meaningless this year.” So said Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern…
Does Anyone Really Stay Pure?
March 7, 2016 | Keeping It Clean
“For this is the will of God, even your sanctification — that each of you possess your vessel in honor. -I Thessalonians 4: 3-4 Sexual…