Winging It

I spent the week with hymns on the Cross. The Crucifixion is a focus in hymns and in Scripture. Paul determined to know nothing except ...

Turn on the news or peruse the Internet these days and you'll find that Christians aren't the most popular folks on the planet. In t...

This is one of Isaac Watts' many hymns. This one was published in 1707 in preparation for a communion service. When I Survey the Wondro...

This is another hymn on the cross. I mentioned it earlier. It's an oldie, to be sure, and a lot of you may not have ever heard it. To be...

Yesterday I did my overview on the Cross. I mentioned Elizabeth Clephane's Beneath the Cross of Jesus . We'll look at that one more ...

This is "Holy Week", the celebration of the end of the life of Christ, leading up to His sacrifice on the Cross. I'm going to ...

Well, does He? Of course there's no question, right? I mean, sure maybe from unbelievers and skeptics, but not from believers , right? W...

Ever wonder why April 1st is "April Fool's Day"? Well, the story is told that early cultures used to celebrate April 1st as t...

The topic of divorce in Christian circles is hotly debated. There are those who say, "There is no biblical reason for divorce." T...

There is a common, basic core in most spiritual beliefs. There is "God" and there is "us" and there is "a gap"...

I don't often post twice in a day, but I read this news item and had to point it out. Seriously? Words deemed "upsetting" (li...

For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, n...

You have to have been living under a rock if you haven't heard about the Trayvon Martin case. It has been in all the news. There have be...

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain (Phil 1:21). I have this secret that I haven't told just anyone. The reason that I haven...

Most of us have heard of the wise monk who referred to something as "like the sound of one hand clapping". And most of us have tho...

Over at the excellent Stand to Reason blog, Alan Shlemon asks and answers the question, "Are Homosexuals Going to Hell?" His answ...

The disagreement arises fairly often these days. "Orthodoxy or orthopraxy?" Okay, maybe not in those terms. But the question remai...

I know that there are lots of Christians -- mostly men, I suppose, but not only men -- who wrestle with pornography. They're tempted, ...

Messing with a friend one April Fool's day, I sent them a letter that included the quote, "'The children of your youth make you...

Recently an article was written that affirmed that Calvinists do not believe that we are saved by faith alone. "Wait, wait," som...