Keeping Your Prayers Intact

I’m a thoroughly foolish but repentant man. While I don’t flaunt the mistakes I’ve made, I rarely seek occasion to conceal them. But what I never used to understand is that my conduct had much to do with… Read More

Transcending the Transgender Drivel

Any suggestion that gender can be exchanged or re-formulated breaches the limits of sanity. Everyone in his right mind knows this. As a logical, moral people, we know we shouldn’t even be having conversations about something so preposterous…. Read More

What Would Jesus Do?

Some might recall a popular catchphrase of the 70’s: “Hey man, WWJD?” It was an acronym for “What would Jesus do?” Though it was seriously overworked, it was often an effective means of administering either encouragement or shame…. Read More

Sowing Spiritual Capital

I’d like to think I’ve been the one who chose what I did with my life. But when I look back, that’s not completely true. Just like everybody else, I have specific needs, desires, skills and talents. So,… Read More

The Highest Hurdle of Belief

I don’t focus much on evangelism. It’s a term often misused and exploited, so there’s always plenty of it to go around. I choose rather to concentrate on providing something that’s in short supply—that is, encouragement for other… Read More

My Halfway House

It wasn’t actually a physical place, but I spent a lot of time there.   Even though I knew a certain level of responsibility was expected from me, I was convinced I was a work in progress, and… Read More

The Cup of a Solemn, Discerning Man

I couldn’t help notice the young man squirming impatiently in the pew. It continued until the sacraments of The Lord’s Supper ritual were eventually distributed to him and the rest of us present in the local congregation. But… Read More

The Freeman’s Intuition

Human freedom has always been achieved by choice. But that’s not something that’s recently been disclosed in a New York Times Best Seller paperback. These pathetic cycles from enslavement into liberation and back into bondage over the past… Read More

Not Fearing is God-Fearing

There’s an innocent four-letter word that must always be defined by context. It can be used to suggest either apprehension or deep respect. But I can’t use ’em both ways at the same time. For how can I… Read More

The Almighty and the Almighty Dollar

I used to believe that prosperity and discipleship in Christ were incompatible. But, at the same time, I could never square this idea with all the personal wealth-protecting ordinances the Lord God established for His people Israel in… Read More