Death

So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.  – Psalms 73:22 David was having one of those  days, one…

“When Jesus calls a man”, Dietrich Bonheoffer said, “He bids him come and die.” No getting around that. The claims of God on our…

Having loved films the better part of my life, certain lines from certain movies have always stuck with me. Since the weekend is a…

It took me about four decades to perfect the art of brushing off pushy solicitors. Not that I begrudge anyone their means of making…

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he…

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…

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…

(I’m reposting this message with a few updates in light of the Robin Williams tragedy, hoping it can be of use to anyone suffering…

“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…

“I have no more ability to believe — that the first people on earth were a couple named Adam and Eve that lived 6,000…

“—but then again, too few to mention.” Or so crooned Frank Sinatra in his signature ballad “My Way.” And if that’s really true, more…

It hung over the entrance to Auschwitz, a large metal sign handmade by prisoners, offering a last shred of false hope to the doomed:…

Certain words – important ones – simply don’t mean what they used to. “Christian” traditionally meant born again, believing in the authority of scripture,…

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…