It’s sad to see people begging. It’s a reminder that we live in a fallen world and that there are people with real needs. But when it comes to seeing people begging, I almost always drive by without giving anything. But I also have to admit, I do feel a? […]
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I know it sounds weird, but these last few weeks I’ve found that meditating on scriptural passages relating to both hell and God’s goodness is edifying. It’s helped me better understand both what hell is like and who God is. Meditating on hell has given me a greater awareness of […]
All Scripture is God-breathed?and is useful for teaching,?rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,?so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:16-17) ?I went to bible college for four years, but I was never taught this.? ?Todd? was a young man who was […]
Talking and writing about hell in public is a faux pas these days. But at the risk of being a Debbie Downer (or rather, a Dennis Downer) during the holiday season, I’m going to do just that. I was stunned by the overwhelming response I received to my post “Imagine […]
“Human nature never changes.” The professor and I both sighed. We were on a ten minute break at the Broomfield, Colorado, City and County Courthouse.. The lawsuit for wrongful termination against Vail Resorts had been dragging on and on and both of us were getting bored performing our civic duty […]
Every time I fly somewhere I always notice a very specific and important moment on my trip: it’s the moment I transfer my weight from the end of the jetway onto the jet by stepping through the door. It’s a very delibrate act of the will, a decision that I […]
Dear Women: Welcome to the modern world and its secular, godless men. In this new world, men have been taught all their lives that they are the end product of millions of years of evolution: the fittest of the fit. They believe they are mere animals with huge sex drives […]
Maybe it was because my mother wasn’t Norwegian. I don’t know. But the reality was that Grandma Reese never thought Mom was good enough for her beloved firstborn son, Bernhard. No matter what she did, Mom couldn’t cook well enough, keep house well enough, or raise five children well enough […]
?If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters?yes, even their own life?such a person cannot be my disciple.” – Jesus I once quoted the above verse to a girl I was dating. I was just trying to explain my understanding […]