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There is a phenomenon alive in our culture that I find increasingly hard to digest in the belly of my soul. There is a river, feeding a deep and dark ocean of falseness, fed by multiple streams of thought, behaviors, practices and philosophies that in turn feeds a culture that writhes in deception. It feeds … More The Inauthentic Happy Face
Sunday is not the end but the beginning of the week. So, here’s some encouragement to start your week well. God’s best to all of you this week as you fight the good fight of faith. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you do have to start to be great.” #BicycleBeast “Great … More Great Quotes to Start Your Week
Protect the Warmth of Your Heart Left to its own, all heat is always dissipating, becoming tepid and cold. Hearts too, follow the physics of nature in the spiritual atmosphere of the soul. Unless the fires of our love for God are tended faithfully, the heart grows tepid and cold. This certainly is why the … More Protect the Warmth of Your Heart
One year I went to a denominational national conference and arrived onsite to find that the conference was offering 78 different major sessions, seminars or short classes to the collected conferees. It was an attempt to be helpful, that I felt was doomed to backfire. At the time I served with three other pastors a … More A Story, A Point, and A Book
I had the opportunity to preach at my brother Karl’s church this past Sunday. Crossing Community Church is an ARP (Associate Reformed Presbyterian) church with a very talented worship team and a diverse congregation in a serious pursuit of Jesus. It was a delight to be with them. We arrived about a half hour early … More “You Walk Like Your Brother”
Samuel D. Ferguson is a pastor with a new book that seeks to make thoughtful sense of the explosion of interest and expression related to “transgender identity.” This is a helpful book that I highly recommend but maybe this brief article will serve as a short introduction to both Dr. Ferguson and his book. The … More Understanding the Transgender Mind
Today, the July letter from the C.S. Lewis Institute arrived. I’m going to quote it at some length because the excerpt from Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer is so helpful. But before I do, I want to provide a link to an index for the book that readers might find helpful as well. This particular … More C.S. Lewis Invites Us into the Lord’s Prayer
Psalm 119:89 How to Develop a Passion for the Things of God Hang around passionate people. Luke 11:1 “Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.” —-the disciples saw Jesus’s passion for prayer and … More 13 Ways to Grow a Passion for the Things of God
It was on this date that the United States boldly stepped into the dark and called it light. In the name of “privacy” and “rights” and “reproductive freedom” and “my body my own” and “every baby a wanted baby” we began to kill the future. Nice sounding words that act like drugs in our culture … More January 23 A Day of Darkness
[ Note: I started this post back in June. On Friday, of last week, Stephnie and I traveled back up to Philly for a family wedding, my nephew Scott (youngest son of my sister Mary and husband Eric) married his beautiful bride Alexandra. Saturday was spent eating and visiting with all of my brothers and … More They Loom Large
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