Since several hundred pastors read my blog, every now and then I like to focus on those of us who are and talk a little shop. For those of you who aren’t, you need to know that good preaching is much more difficult than it looks. Back in the day, […]
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“Do not repay evil for evil or insult for insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, for to this you were called that you may inherit a blessing. For whoever would love life and see good days must keep their tongue from evil and their lips from deceitful speech. […]
I woke Patti up as I leaped out of bed in the dead of night last Monday morning. “What’s the matter?” she asked with a groggy voice. “Someone’s pounding at our door!” I quickly got into my jeans and began running around frantically checking doors. “Nothing in front,” I thought […]
It’s not often a book written for men can be described as a page-turner, but that’s exactly what Rise of the Servant Kings: What the Bible Says about Being a Man by Ken Harrison, the Chairman of the Board of Promise Keepers and a onetime police officer with the LAPD, […]
Recently, I’ve been noticing a term popping up in our culture that I had never heard before. It’s “impostor syndrome.” Impostor syndrome is “a psychological pattern in which one doubts one’s accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a ‘fraud.’” I’m afraid Christians can struggle with […]
“We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.” 1 John 1:3 (NIV) The great privilege of every Christian is to live with God in daily – […]
“He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers.” Malachi 4:6 Until Drew Lock appeared in the starting roster late this season, Denver Broncos fans didn’t have much to cheer about. The team was a dismal 3-8 when the […]
“Be filled with the Spirit…singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.” Ephesians 5:18-19 My father loved to whistle. I never knew the tunes he was whistling, but I did think it was cute when I was a kid. It wasn’t until years later that I learned Grandma […]
“Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being […]
This is my third of what will be four posts on men’s ministry and guns. In response to my previous two posts, a number of readers cited Luke 22:35-38 as proof that Jesus commanded his followers to take up arms, and, therefore, current day believers should do so as well. […]