For the first time in our history, married couples are in a minority. Married couples now only comprise 48% of the households of this country. Back when I was a junior in high school, going …
The Starting Point
Nancy Pearcey in her book, Total Truth, brought something into focus that I had thought about but hadn’t quite got together. She observed that a common weakness of evangelism is that we start with redemption. …
The Power to Love
A man can live without food…for a while. He can live on short rations for quite a while. But sooner or later the body withers and dies. We know what it looks like, because we …
Lost Children
I really hate to tell you this, but I think we did a better job of sex education back in the 1940s than you folks are doing today. Now, in case you are scratching your …
Love and Sex
Now, I have the greatest admiration for the teaching profession. It’s an honorable one. But there’s a lot of experimentation going on in schools led by educators who are long on idealism and short on …
Doctrines, Creeds, and Dogmas
If you are a Christian, and a member of a church, your church probably has some set of beliefs that it expects all of its members to hold. That’s probably not as big a deal …
Prophets Old and New
There are times, reading the prophets in the Bible, that I feel like I am reading an op-ed piece on current events. The 83rd Psalm is uncanny when read in the light of today’s news. …
Real Worship
The worship of God is not as easy as some might think. It is easy enough to pretend to worship. All the forms are well known: raised hands, bowed head, bent knees. The jargon of …
Your God Is Too Small
There is very little in the way of direct revelation of a world that exists alongside our world. We get little glimpses from time to time in the testimony of men who, in vision, were …
A Relationship with God
Not long ago, Someone I respect very highly commented that she did not have a relationship with God. She believed in God, she practiced her faith assiduously, but did not believe she had a relationship …
The Solitary Man
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Everyone knows this verse by heart. But there may be something here that …
The Days of Elijah
If you happen to enjoy contemporary praise music, you more than likely have heard These Are The Days of Elijah. (It happens to be one of my favorites. It is very singable and I can …
Standing at the Edge
After some recent reading, I now think we are standing closer to the Abyss than I thought we were, and that the tipping point is not what I thought it was. Let me explain. I …
Speaking Truth to Power
Two things came my way yesterday which, at first blush, seem unrelated. But, in fact, they have a common, underlying philosophy which needs to be challenged every time it raises its ugly head. It may …
Stand Up for Christ
Remember prohibition? No, I don’t suppose you do. What did the nation learn from that? We learned that when people wanted to drink they would find a way—there would always be criminal elements to help …
Christian Origins #96 - John and Jude
No man has seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him. John 1:18 KJ2000 Now here, John poses a problem for us. …
Christian Origins #95 - 1 John
It is easy to misunderstand things when you are reading someone else’s mail—for example, when John writes that everyone who commits sin is of the devil. But when you compare it with an earlier statement …
Christian Origins #94 - 1 John
What I am going to tell you in this program may shock you. But it is my job to put the idea before you as clearly and as honestly as I know how. My job …
Christian Origins #93 - 1 John
There was one man who was closer to Jesus than any other. Sometimes I wonder what it was about this man that made him so special. Because Jesus had 12 disciples, but only one of …