Wake-up Call

No matter how it comes I don’t like it.  Let’s face it, a wake-up call is like a jolt of mental electricity that shocks you out of your peaceful beauty rest.  In my case, my much needed beauty rest.  The result is the bedraggled mirror image looking dully back at me first thing in the [...]

Is The Bible True?

One would expect that professing Christians in the U.S. believe that the Bible is true. The sad fact is that many do not. As a pastor I find this this maddeningly perplexing and frustrating. How can one even reconcile a belief in Christ and Christianity while glibly dismissing God’s word as not being real and [...]

Is God Real?

Last Sunday was our first installment of “The God Questions.” We have limited time on Sundays so I don’t always get to answer questions that I receive. In a recent internet forum debate I was in on, the following three assertions were made. I wanted to take a couple of moments to address these frequent [...]

Carpe Diem

Tick, tick, tick, tick… “They say time is the fire in which we burn…” …tick, tick, tick, tick… “Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives…” …tick, tick, tick, tick… “I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending, that haunts our sleep so much [...]

Tithing vs. Giving

Tithing?  Giving?  Which is right?  Just how much do I have to give to God? Wow… Wow! I’ve just finished an intensive study on tithing vs. giving.  I’ve looked at numerous Bible verses, read famous Christian leaders and preachers dating back to the second century, read books, articles and theological pages from both points of [...]

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