When Someone You Love is Gay
January 7, 2020 | Doctrinal Matters
Approval Accepted; Acceptance DeniedWhen someone says “Mom and Dad, I’m gay”, are Mom and Dad automatically forced into a choice between approval or rejection,…
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…
“I’m Invited to a Same-Sex Wedding. Yes or No?”
September 15, 2016 | Relational Matters
Let each be fully persuaded in his own mind. Romans 13:5 There’s an ongoing buzz in the Christian community over whether or not believers should…
Perfecting
July 25, 2016 | Keeping It Clean
Day has begun and I’m already sinning Help me to change this heart that I have Lord, help me taste Of the grace that…
Dying to Love
June 17, 2016 | A Cuppa Joe
Love. How did one show it? How could God Himself show truth and love at the same time in a world like this? By…
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…
Unbridled
December 29, 2014 | Keeping It Clean
Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and…
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 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…
Beastly Me
October 22, 2014 | Doctrinal Matters
So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. – Psalms 73:22 David was having one of those days, one…
Sufficient Evil
September 22, 2014 | Keeping It Clean
Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof. – Matthew 6:34 I know something’s wrong when I repeatedly wake up wondering how I’m ever gonna…
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…
Assessing Matthew Vines “God and the Gay Christian” Pt. VII
May 26, 2014 | Keeping It Clean
“Jesus Christ did not say, ‘Go into all the world and tell the world that it is quite right.’ The Gospel is something completely different.…
Assessing Matthew Vines “God and the Gay Christian” Pt. VI
May 24, 2014 | A Cuppa Joe
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither…