I have a ministry montra that I repeat often: “It is God’s will for every church to be able to say, ‘There is not a needy person among us.’” This morning, someone asked me on Facebook, “Won’t the Poor and Needy Always Be With Us?” The short answer is, yes, […]
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“Wow! You sure carry a lot of clout!” “Dan,” who lives a few doors down from me, was excited. He had seen me through his window earlier this week on my daily walk with my dog, Dixie, and then rushed outside to catch me before I got too far down […]
Every now and then, when I speak on the topic of good works, I ask my audience a?trick question: How many ways are there to?gain eternal life? The answer I always get back is: one. Technically, that is incorrect. According to?the Bible, there are two ways to gain eternal?life. The […]
Over the twenty years I was a pastor, I endured several candidating experiences. I say “endured” because I liken candidating for a pastorate at a church to getting a wife through a mail order catalog. One of my pastorates had four hundred applicants for the position. And no church I […]
My wife has a problem. Patti has been a women’s health care nurse practitioner for forty years. That means she’s done over 100,000 exams. And that means she continually gets her left and right mixed up. Why? Because as she faces her patients and talks to them about their left […]
Nothing is working right this morning. I got locked out of my online ministry banking account. (Hmm, what is my accountant’s mother-in-law’s first name?) And for some reason, I can’t access my ministry’s website with my home wifi, Starbucks’ wifi, or with my cellphone hotspot. I can check my email, […]
I wrote recently about “Hell Lite.” I discussed how God isn’t a sadist, arbitrarily assigning everyone to the same fate in hell. (This is a favorite atheistic straw man argument against the existence of a personal, holy God.) Instead, there are degrees of hell, with some being more tolerable than […]
“Neighbor means neighbor.” That’s been my mantra as I’ve thought and written about what it means to love our neighbors as ourselves. The reason I’ve focused on the concreteness of our neighbors is because we tend to go first to the story of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37). In that […]
?This is an usual post. First of all, I want to give you a heads up about an app that has particular relevance to my current topic: loving our neighbors as ourselves. Secondly, I need your feedback on three ads I’ve developed for Facebook. Those ads are below. The app […]
Over the past fifteen years of helping churches start men’s team ministries to their widowed and single parents, I’ve received exactly two derogatory emails. The first was about ten years ago. The writer was irate that I would have the nerve to charge for my training material. The second was […]