“By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” John 13:35 “Helen” told us she couldn’t wait to load her visiting relatives from out of town into her car and drive them by our church. She said when she passed by, she rolled down […]
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Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It […]
Scripture warns us about many things, such as being lazy, offering yourself as surety for a person taking out a loan, partaking of communion in an unworthy manner, and many other things. But there are some warnings that stand out as more important than others, such as do not fear […]
And the Lord saith unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the Lord? (Exodus 4:11) “Mom, why did God make me this way?” Glenn, my oldest brother by eighteen years, was severely mentally handicapped. […]
Everything about our Christian faith points us in one direction: to do good. “We are His workmanship,” Paul writes in Ephesians 2:10, “created in Christ Jesus for good works; which God has prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” (Emphasis mine.) The simple reality is that wherever genuine believers […]
“So, Herb, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?” It was working. It took six months, but my zip code evangelism strategy (go to the same people in the same places in the same area all the time) was working. I’m a creature of habit. […]
If you’ve been reading my blog for like, one week, you know what I do believe. Here are thirteen things I don’t believe. 1. I don’t believe something came from nothing. 2. I don’t believe order just appeared out of chaos. 3. I don’t believe the universe was fine tuned […]
We all know we live in a post Christian world that is quickly becoming an anti-Christian world. But before western civilization throws the baby out with the bathwater, it might be a good idea for everyone to pause, take a deep breath, and think about some of the things Christianity […]
Like many American Christians these days, I’ve been on a number of short term mission trips and consequently have seen a lot of poverty. But two mission trips stand out in my mind mainly because they took place within a year of each other and because they clearly illustrate two […]
I grew up in a schizophrenic culture. On the one hand, Los Angeles in the 60’s and 70’s marked ground zero for the dramatic social changes rocking the entire country. Hippies, the sexual revolution, drugs, Hollywood, rock-n-roll, Vietnam, antiwar demonstrations, race riots, assassinations – all of it happened right in […]