The Transsexual Dilemma: Part 5 of a 5-Part Series
December 5, 2014 | A Cuppa Joe
Kim came to me with honest, hard questions. She was born female, but had lived for years as a male, had undergone female-to-male sex…
The Transsexual Dilemma – Part 4 of a 5 Part Series
December 4, 2014 | Relational Matters
The growing support for transsexualism in the culture, plus the growing number of voices within the Church calling for us to not only to…
The Transsexual Dilemma: Part 3 of a Five Part Series
December 3, 2014 | Doctrinal Matters
The growing support for transsexualism in the culture, plus the growing number of voices within the Church calling for us to not only to…
The Transsexual Dilemma: Part 2 of a 5-Part Series
December 2, 2014 | Marriage Matters
Recent events in both the culture and the Church have prodded me this week to post, in a five-part series, an article I wrote…
The Transsexual Dilemma: Part 1 of a 5-Part Series
December 1, 2014 | Keeping It Clean
Six years ago I wrote an article on transsexualism – a person’s identification with the opposite sex (“I’m a woman in a man’s body”)…
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…
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…
Houston and Homosexuality Part II: In Praise of Squeaky Wheels
October 16, 2014 | Relational Matters
Update Yesterday I posted on Houston Mayor Annise Parker’s subpoena of pastor’s sermons and communications, an extraordinary move by any standards. In response to…
Houston, Homosexuality and Heavy Handedness
October 15, 2014 | Doctrinal Matters
Since the Ebola scare is today’s top story, there’s a secondary item you may be unaware of: the City Council of Houston has subpoenaed…
The Critical Structure
October 7, 2014 | Keeping It Clean
It’s not hard to get guys to do something heroic. But ask them to do the mundane, the day to day, week to week…
Right Position, Wrong Attitude
September 26, 2014 | A Cuppa Joe
“The children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left.” – Elijah,…
Jesus and Same-Sex Marriage
September 17, 2014 | Doctrinal Matters
Recent well-publicized developments are causing many Christians to re-examine their position on homosexuality. A newly-formed group called Evangelicals for Marriage Equality is dedicated to…
Losing Heart, Acting Out
September 15, 2014 | Keeping It Clean
Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart. -II Corinthians 4:1 When the going gets tough,…
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,…