It’s In The Cards
December 11, 2014 | Relational Matters
The volume of Christmas cards coming into our home has gone way down, year after year, replaced by online greetings, which are now the norm. And…
“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.…
Amazing Grays
October 29, 2014 | Doctrinal Matters
Our local paper ran a feature story awhile back, written by a self-identified evangelical Christian and titled “There is Something in the Air. Can You…
Friend, Interrupted
August 7, 2014 | Relational Matters
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. – Arnold H. Glasow Robert was amazing; a young leader gifted…
Church Hurts
August 1, 2014 | A Cuppa Joe
“Sometimes the person that hurt you the most, is the one you need the most.” -Author unknown Some of us bear scars that are,…
Lessons from the Apes
July 18, 2014 | A Cuppa Joe
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes seems to be the current rage, topping box office records and offering an impressive array of special…
Sinner and a Movie
May 30, 2014 | A Cuppa Joe
With movies like God’s Not Dead, Heaven is for Real and Noah dominating our conversations about the Bible and the box office, one quiet…
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” Part III – Jesus and Homosexuality
May 9, 2014 | A Cuppa Joe
The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs us, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the…
Assessing “God and the Gay Christian”
May 3, 2014 | A Cuppa Joe
Several people have asked me to comment on Matthew Vine’s new book God and the Gay Christian, a recent and well-publicized argument for legitimizing…
The Good Fight
March 25, 2014 | Marriage Matters
“Our quarrel was such A way of loving so much.” -“Reunited” by Peaches and herb Healthy couples fight. Not too often; seldom viciously; never…
Doubt
February 12, 2014 | Doctrinal Matters
“Art thou He that should come, or do we look for another?” – Matthew 11:3 John the Baptist, full of the Holy Spirit from…
Mad at Dad
October 17, 2013 | Relational Matters
Dads figure pretty largely in the lives of the men I’ve worked with over the years. Well, duh, I know – Dads figure largely…
Hard Truth: The Wound that Heals
September 19, 2013 | Relational Matters
When a racer’s vehicle needs repair, he doesn’t junk it. He pulls it over for a pit stop, and he certainly doesn’t do that…