Notes From My COVID Corner
January 28, 2021 | Doctrinal Matters
On January 15, after two weeks of increasingly serious COVID symptoms, I was admitted to the ICU for treatment of low blood oxygen levels…
Before You Look At That Stuff Again …
September 1, 2020 | Doctrinal Matters
It’s a familiar scene. You want it, it’s there.You’re lonely, or stressed, or bored. You’ve got some spare time; you’ve got access.You also know…
Our Unnatural Drift
August 10, 2020 | 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…
Ain’t It All Just Awful?
July 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
“A person overtly expresses distress, but it is covertly gratified at the prospect of the satisfaction they can wring from their misfortune.”– Dr. Eric…
Another Spirit
March 3, 2020 | Doctrinal Matters
But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land where…
It’s a Wormderful Life
December 19, 2019 | Doctrinal Matters
“But I am a worm —“-Psalm 22:6“If any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.”-Hebrews 10:38Of all our family Christmas…
Darts Among Friends
September 19, 2019 | Doctrinal Matters
Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. – Ephesians 5:16It’s…
As We Forgive Those
November 19, 2018 | Keeping It Clean
“… and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespassed against us.” (Luke 11:4) Jesus loves me, this I know. But this…
Dances with Snakes
November 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
Sunday’s CBS Special on Conversion Therapy Made Christian Counselors Look Like Snake Handlers In some parts of the country, churches pull out live rattlesnakes…
Holy Cop-Out
September 26, 2018 | Doctrinal Matters
“It is not God who does not call. It is man who will not respond!” – Isobel Kuhn, missionary to China and Thailand There’s…
3 Concepts that are Choking our Conversations about LGBTQ
September 20, 2018 | Relational Matters
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within…
Sin: The Presence, the Power, and the Promises
September 17, 2018 | Keeping It Clean
When I came to Christ at the age of sixteen, I had a bucketful of emotional and sexual struggles which, I assumed, would disappear…
Why Persecution?
September 12, 2018 | Doctrinal Matters
” Why Persecutest Thou Me?” – Acts 22:7 You almost blush when you use the word, right? I know I do. “Persecution” is so…
We who are Imperfect Conquerors
September 5, 2018 | Doctrinal Matters
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who has loved us.-Romans 8:37 Confidence is what you have before…