As preachers, we are like spiritual athletes who need to keep growing and developing our skills. We also function as spiritual coaches to Christ’s church. Our sermons seriously affect those under our care; our responsibility is great. Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord... Continue Reading

In the past year or so, I have been really challenged as to why I write on the topics that I do. The challenge by some has been: since you are a pastor, then you should only write about the gospel and the things of God. I lost a friend on Facebook because of this... Continue Reading

Even ordinary people would stock their inner circle with the best and brightest if we were to rule the world. But God is different. He delights in using average people to advance his Kingdom. Most of us want to both fit in and stand out. We want to be included in the group, yet we... Continue Reading

In fact, Scripture reveals that it was the women who rallied around Jesus during his crucifixion, and consequently it would be women who would first witness his resurrection. Because of their faithfulness, they were the first bearers of the good news. “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but... Continue Reading

The recent decision to change our (PCUSA) ordination standards is a rejection of Scripture and tradition as understood by more than one billion Roman Catholics. It is also an offense to more than 300 million Eastern Orthodox in their various communities in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and around the globe…1.2 billion Muslims will shake... Continue Reading

Pro-life advocates hope the ruling will help defend unborn children in a city where 41 percent of pregnancies end in abortion—a rate nearly twice the national average. In a stinging rebuke to opponents of pregnancy care centers, a federal judge on July 13 barred New York City officials from enforcing a law aimed at mandating... Continue Reading

First, the church must take itself more seriously… Second, we as parents must communicate and transfer to our children our convictions. It is difficult for Presbyterians to avoid asking whether our faith works with our children and young people. The usual pattern we observe is that children are baptized as infants, then sometime in childhood... Continue Reading

Why the obsession with our kids’ happiness may be dooming them to unhappy adulthoods. A therapist and mother reports. If there’s one thing I learned in graduate school, it’s that the poet Philip Larkin was right. (“They XXXX you up, your mum and dad, / They may not mean to, but they do.”) At the... Continue Reading

…at University of South Florida the administration wants to make it easy for those who are experiencing gender identity confusion. Those assigned at random to live with a transgendered student are in for a big surprise. A transgender student at University of South Florida (USF) has now conclusively shown that once people become sufficiently open-minded... Continue Reading

What are we to make of the Casey Anthony decision? Nothing. A little girl died. She might have been murdered. It might have been an accident. It might have been somewhere in between. Her mother may be a murderer, or she may merely be a slightly more dramatic sinner than most of us. She came... Continue Reading