The Day the Jesus Movement Caught Up to Me
April 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
It was the early Spring of 1971 and I sat frozen in the passenger seat, silent and numb, while my girlfriend drove the San…
The Unnatural Drifter
April 24, 2017 | 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…
Surrendered Too Soon
February 9, 2017 | Relational Matters
Then the Lord closed the door. Genesis 7:16 The high price of love is yearning, and the stress which goes with it. Agape love…
Of Truth Telling and Roller Coasters
December 16, 2016 | A Cuppa Joe
The following is a revised excerpt from my book “Speaking of Homosexuality” When someone you love is in the wrong, then you’re in the…
Me Divided by Three
November 21, 2016 | Keeping It Clean
Man made in the image and likeness of God was made an inferior trinity of spirit, soul and body. But when man obeyed the…
The Greater Condemnation
October 14, 2016 | A Cuppa Joe
My brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. – James 3:1 James didn’t write a very nice book. In fact,…
Judgment Days
September 22, 2016 | Relational Matters
“For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged.” -Matthew 7:2 Some days I’m just in a judgment kind of mood. That’s a…
Eternally Secure, Perpetually Striving
September 14, 2016 | Doctrinal Matters
One of Christianity’s longest running arguments has to do with the believer’s security. If one has been born again, can he ever lose his…
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…
Standing Your Lonely Ground
May 19, 2016 | Relational Matters
“Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you!” – Luke 6:26 Generally, you should consider what others are telling you. Occasionally,…
It’s a Worm-derful Life
March 22, 2016 | A Cuppa Joe
“But I am a worm —“ -Psalm 22:6 “If any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.” -Hebrews 10:38 There’s…
Deeds Above Creeds
February 19, 2016 | A Cuppa Joe
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. -James 1:22 Most of my Christian life, I’ve assumed…
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…
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…