Winging It

I read this in Romans the other day. And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: "Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand o...

Have you ever noticed how, over and over again, God seems to turn things around? What I mean is that God seems to have a penchant for taking...

I'd guess that most of you have never heard of this concept. Don't worry. I wouldn't expect it. Popular at one point, there are...

You may have heard of a "sea-change". It comes from Shakespeare's The Tempest . He wrote about a man whose father drowned, whi...

If you ask around I suspect you might have a little trouble getting an answer to the question, "What is worship?" It's one of ...

Perhaps you've heard the stories. The Massachusetts State police shutdown a 12-year-old refugee from Fukushima, Japan, who was selling g...

I recently finished Rosaria Butterfield's The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert . This is not a review of the book. If you don...

To take for granted : to fail to appreciate something or someone. To expect someone or something to always be available without thanks or re...

In Acts 12 there is a kind of fun story about Peter in jail. Herod had James, John's brother, beheaded and found out the Jews liked it. ...

Paul writes what we title Titus to "Titus, my true child in a common faith" (Titus 1:4). Titus was discipled by Paul. At the writ...

It's Memorial Day again. First celebrated in the years following the Civil War, it is an American holiday observed on the last Monday of...

While our society rambles on about the "zombie apocalypse" (So serious are some that a town in the UK sued their leadership becaus...

Finally, we have a smoothly operating federal government. Well, I mean, on at least one item. The bill hit both the House and the Senate an...

Jesus's letter to the church at Ephesus is an interesting letter. Oh, you know, the one that Jesus dictated to John in Revelation (Rev 2...

One of the defining aspects of the nation of Israel was separateness. God separated out Noah and Abraham and Levi (Num 8:14) and then all Is...

The story is told that the Christians in the days of the Caesars were charged at times with being atheists. Sure, they believed in God, but ...

The acronym, TULIP, has been used to supply the "shape" of Reformed Theology, of "the doctrines of grace", of what is po...

Okay, up front, I'll tell you that the title is hyperbole, an overstatement for effect. Not everyone believes that the Atonement of Chr...

Recently in church we sang that wonderful hymn, Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing . Now, I know that hymns are no longer in vogue in many c...

North Carolina got snarled in a conflict about "transgender" and bathrooms. Companies and performers and even the Justice Departme...