2020 has certainly turned out to be a bizarre year. Pandemic. Cities moving to eliminate law enforcement. Statutes. Mandatory mask orders. Division. I find some of these things bothersome. What I’ve noticed that bothers me more than most anything else is a distinct lack of Christlikeness among some professed Christians. I’ve noticed this among friends,…
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Deadly Familiarity
Several days a week find me commuting a little over 70 miles. Once in a while a take an alternate route that takes me through open range land. You know you’re in open range land when you’re driving down a road, usually a Farm-to-Market road, and you suddenly cross cattle guards and the fences disappear.…
The Gospel Comedy
How does the title of this post make you feel? Even knowing what I was going to write later in this post, it was uncomfortable to type those words out. It was inspired by a podcast in which I heard the phrase “The whole Gospel is really comedic…” I was taken aback. Are you uncomfortable?…
Wait. What? Things I Didn’t Know About the Bible
I was raised in church. I’ve often joked with folks that in the church of my youth, the pastor had to push his way through the our family to get the doors unlocked. That experience formed me and gave me some connections that have lasted my lifetime. We changed our church affiliation when I was…
“They” are Us
Paul wrote in the book of Romans about men who rejected God. God gave them over to their desires. We get a view of what such men look like. I read his description and compare them against daily headlines and can’t help but think God has given this country over to our desires. They were…
Tozer on Watered-down Religion
I’ve really taken a liking to A. W. Tozer over the past two years. He would likely be stunned even more in some of today’s “church” services.
That’s What I’ve Been Saying
Over the years I’ve mediated disputes (not legal mediation) between people. On several occasions I found it interesting that they both had the same position but the same vocabulary. The words they were they were using to express themselves were not registering with each other. On those occasions I found the words and would ask,…
God Always Knows
Forgiven little or much?
I often wonder if being raised in the church makes it easier to live a Christian life on the outside but harder to live it on the inside.
