5 Things People Can Mean When They Say “I Want Help”
April 6, 2017 | Relational Matters
To flirt with rescue when one has no intention of being saved… from Stephen Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music” The first time I stepped…
Frank Worthen: “To Whom Honor is Due”
February 11, 2017 | A Cuppa Joe
Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.…
Jen Hatmaker: Hermeneutics, Hurt, and Human Affection (Part I)
November 3, 2016 | Relational Matters
Popular author and speaker Jen Hatmaker’s declaration that she now condones same-sex marriage is another cog in an expanding wheel of leaders who are…
Update on my Upcoming Book
August 13, 2016 | A Cuppa Joe
The endorsements are in! I’m grateful to my deeply respected colleagues and friends who took the time to review, then endorse, my upcoming…
The Restrainer
June 29, 2016 | Doctrinal Matters
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. II…
Odd, by God
June 20, 2016 | Keeping It Clean
Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you. – I Peter 4:4…
Mad Married Men
March 1, 2016 | Marriage Matters
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is…
Manny Pacquiao, Gay Marriage, and a Call for Eternal Hostility (Part One)
February 23, 2016 | Keeping It Clean
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. – Thomas Jefferson Filipino…
Uncool, When Necessary
February 13, 2016 | A Cuppa Joe
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions. -Lillian Hellman When playwright Lillian Hellman was called to testify before…
9 Holiday Lyrics We Often Don’t Get
December 22, 2014 | Keeping It Clean
Since we’re all in the middle of the pre-Christmas rush, let’s just kick back for some light reading today. They’re playing those songs, everywhere…
“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.…
Sexual Sin – Who Cares?
September 3, 2014 | Doctrinal Matters
If it doesn’t matter to God, it shouldn’t matter to us. And even if it does matter to Him, does it matter a lot,…
ISIS, Charles Manson, and Redemption
August 8, 2014 | A Cuppa Joe
“Be not overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good.” -Romans 12:21 It doesn’t sink in easily. Whole families are being slaughtered, children are…
You Want Her to Trust You Again?
July 29, 2014 | Marriage Matters
The married man who uses porn, commits adultery, or gives himself to other kinds of unclean behavior breaks trust. He’s in a covenanted relationship…