The church isn’t dead. The church isn’t dying. The church lost its footing for a minute, but God isn’t finished with his church and he isn’t finished with the world.   We criticize online news sites for their click bait approach to news, but a few websites dedicated to church ministry and pastors need to... Continue Reading

Believing is not just a punctiliar, isolated, insulated act. It is an ongoing way of life. We daily look to Christ in faith for the power to obey and for the strength to endure. Even as we received Christ by faith, so walk we in Him. The believer looks ahead, and there is a life... Continue Reading

How an Israelite would offer their burnt offering matters to God. Unless it is offered in the prescribed way, it will not be acceptable, a pleasing aroma (Lev 1:3, 9, 13, 17). And when we dig into the mechanics of bringing a burnt offering, fascinating things seep from the text’s pores.   For the first... Continue Reading

I fear sometimes that becoming Christians of faith, vocation and culture means for many of us becoming Christians of efficiency in systems change. But this is not the way in God’s economy. God would actually have us be inefficient. He would have us live with and pray for and share the gospel with our neighbors over the... Continue Reading

Take comfort. The Lord goes before you to establish your pathway. He’s governing your path. Do you always get what you plan for? No. Much like a child whose parents see what is best for him, God knows what’s best for us.   What do you do when you face a significant decision? You pray,... Continue Reading

James instructs us to count it all joy. In so doing, he calls us to form an opinion, to take a position. We need to hear this because our reflex in the face of trials is to grumble and complain.   Count it all joy. (James 1:2, NKJV) How many of us have not experienced... Continue Reading

The early Church showed great compassion during plagues, in ministering to the sick, even those who were pagans. This is also seen in the responses of Luther, Spurgeon, the new Christians on Aneityum, and countless other Christians.   When coming to consider plagues throughout history and some Christian responses, it is appropriate to begin with... Continue Reading

It is ironic how redefinition of marriage within the Episcopal Church corresponds with fewer marriages, just as proclamations of “inclusion” led to including fewer and fewer people in the life the of church. Episcopalians, briefly in the limelight as Presiding Bishop Michael Curry preached at the 2018 wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex,... Continue Reading

Over the decades, Dutch doctors “progressed” from euthanizing the terminally ill who ask for it, to the chronically ill who ask for it, to people with disabilities who ask for it, to the mentally ill who ask for it, and even to people with dementia who are unable to ask for it (as long as... Continue Reading

I don’t know what would make a good meal in your book, but I know what makes a good meal in the Bible. I’ve been thinking about three specific meals and what ties them all together. These are three meals of substance from the Bible.   Two chicken-fried steaks with gravy and sliced onions. A... Continue Reading