Overcoming Evil in Orlando with Good
June 13, 2016 | Keeping It Clean
Be not overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good. Romans 12:21 Paul’s warning to not be overcome by evil reminds us that we…
Talking About Transgender: Why we Must, Where we Stand (Part Three of a Five-Part Series)
June 9, 2016 | Doctrinal Matters
Tolerance is a belief in nothing. When we preach tolerance without declaring truth, we have set ourselves up to never set a boundary. We…
Talking about Transgender: Why we Must, Where we Stand (Part One of a Five-Part Series)
May 26, 2016 | Relational Matters
If you can keep your head When all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you… -Rudyard Kipling If you believe there…
Surveying the Damage
May 24, 2016 | Marriage Matters
I work with guys who’ve messed up their marriages then, by God’s grace, roll up their sleeves and commit to restoring what they’ve wounded.…
Second Language, Better Speech
May 23, 2016 | Keeping It Clean
Sinful indulgence can be a language of sorts, the kind we learn early in life, then try to un-learn, but occasionally fall back into.…
The Vanishing Hymnal
May 17, 2016 | A Cuppa Joe
There are traditions, then there are essentials, and a wise church knows the difference. Mine did. When I began fellowshipping as a teenager, our…
Fruitful in Famine
April 20, 2016 | Doctrinal Matters
And perhaps, by God’s grace, I succeed, and for a day or two become a creature consciously dependent on God and drawing its strength…
Rebel Without a Clause
April 19, 2016 | Keeping It Clean
The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians. –…
Of Morsels and Birthrights
April 4, 2016 | Keeping It Clean
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. For ye know how that afterward,…
“You Coming?”
March 26, 2016 | A Cuppa Joe
Last night’s Good Friday service got me thinking about a few points I hadn’t considered before. I’m still chewing on them. First, the Roman…
It’s a Worm-derful Life
March 22, 2016 | A Cuppa Joe
“But I am a worm —“ -Psalm 22:6 “If any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.” -Hebrews 10:38 There’s…
Beyond Belief
March 16, 2016 | Doctrinal Matters
“The word ‘evangelical’ has become almost meaningless this year.” So said Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern…
The Grace Grounding
March 11, 2016 | A Cuppa Joe
“There is now therefore no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.” Romans 8:1 “Grace to you and peace from God our Father and…
Beautifully Bent
March 5, 2016 | A Cuppa Joe
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent…