Blog—Walk By Faith
I’m Tired of All The Labels
I’m Tired of All the Labels In the realm of Christianity, we love using descriptive words to define ourselves. I observed this early in life when I assumed all Baptists were alike. My father was...
Faultfinding: A Real Problem in the Church
Faultfinders: A Real Problem in the Church Making it Loud Doesn't Make it Right In my daily routine of researching to improve my teaching at the university level and exploring the latest...
Press On
Life’s struggles—disappointments with the church, people, or our own failures—can make it easy to consider giving up.
Can We Really Start Over?
So, when we ask the question, “Can you really start over,” what we must acknowledge is that we can change the present and the future, but we cannot, for the most part, change the past.
Why Aren’t We Sharing the Greatest News Ever Told?
Why are we not sharing the greatest news every told? This is one of the most important questions the Church should be asking right now. There was a time when most Christians felt the weight of...
Christian Decisions—What is a Christian to Do?
What is a Christian to do? Jane and I recently had the privilege of being on a roundtable podcast with several other Christian leaders. The subject was "How Should Christians Engage Their...
What Will Happen To The Church As We Know It?
The Ruins of the Lindisfarne Abbey When the world was facing a new millennium in 1999 the Y2K scare prompted much talk about the end of the world “as we knew it.” Fortunately, or unfortunately...
The World In Which We Live
I’ve been trying to think of some adjectives to describe the world in which we live: decadent, broken, wicked, dark. None of them seem to do justice in describing our present culture. We live in a...
Life is Hard
Life is Hard… I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know…life is hard! I’m not complaining, really, I’m not. I’m just observing that life, for most of us, has some difficulties, some...