When Someone You Love is Gay: PARENTS & FAMILY COURSE
January 7, 2025 | Doctrinal Matters
Approval Accepted; Acceptance Denied When someone says “Mom and Dad, I’m gay”, are Mom and Dad automatically forced into a choice between approval or…
The Marriage Murdering Mouth
October 27, 2020 | Doctrinal Matters
Even so, the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! (James 3:5) James had…
10 Tips for Maintaining Sexual Integrity
July 31, 2020 | Uncategorized
About 20 years ago, I put together these “tips” in answer to the question of what steps a man should take to “keep it…
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 10:38 Of all our family…
When Vague is in Vogue
September 19, 2018 | Doctrinal Matters
“For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?” (I Corinthians 14:8) Years ago I was speaking at…
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…
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…
In Other Words
August 2, 2018 | Relational Matters
A New Vocabulary is Changing the Way Christians View Homosexuality. Should We Adopt It? (Part One of a Three-Part Series) But if thought corrupts…
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…
Struggling Isn’t Always so Bad. Here’s 3 Reasons Why
February 13, 2017 | Keeping It Clean
I’m saved and I struggle. Once you read the first part of that statement (“I’m saved”) then you must presume the second part (“I…
In This Thy Might
December 9, 2016 | A Cuppa Joe
And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites:…
Gotta Serve Somebody
November 23, 2016 | Doctrinal Matters
Nevertheless they will be his servants, that they may distinguish My service from the service of the kingdoms of the nations. -II Chronicles 12:8…
“I Love You with All My Will”
November 22, 2016 | Marriage Matters
How do you keep the music playing? How do you make it last? How do you keep the song from fading too fast? And…
The Greater Condemnation
October 14, 2016 | A Cuppa Joe
My brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. – James 3:1 James didn’t write a very nice book. In fact,…