Winging It

One of the most intolerant and judgmental passages in Scripture is found in the fifth chapter of Paul's epistle to the church at Corinth...

America talks a lot about "freedom". We have the "American Civil Liberties Union", an organization dedicated to ensuring...

We all know that being self-centered is wrong. Have you ever asked why? You see, "wrong" has a couple of different senses. There i...

I may not be accessing the Internet regularly for the next couple of weeks. I intend to continue to provide you with quality postings here (...

Okay, enough. The world is sorry enough and the news is depressing enough and, let's be honest, the more we know about Christ and His Wo...

I am a fan of Apologetics, the defense of the faith. I think we are commanded to defend the faith. In an appropriate-for-our-day message to...

This one is just a wondering-out-loud kind of thing. I'm not offering an opinion or a suggestion, let alone a command from God. In fact,...

"Slippery slope fallacy!" they cry. The slippery slope claims that if A occurs, B necessarily follows, that if something happens t...

So, here I am, minding my own business, reading along in Romans, and I come across this. We who are strong have an obligation to bear with ...

I was talking to my wife the other day. "Remember Billy-Bob?" (Not his real name). "No." "Sure you do. I worked...

You've heard the saying, "Prayer changes things." Maybe it does. Maybe not. Depends on the prayer and the pray-er (the one doi...

Last week I offered up some of the backyard birds we get. Just a small sample. But we live in the desert and you can imagine that it's n...

In his book, The Knowledge of the Holy , A. W. Tozer said, "What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thi...

One of the disturbing parts of Christianity is these repeated calls to self-sacrifice. You know, things like "If anyone would come afte...

I once knew a wonderful Christian wife of an elder at the church I was in who had a remarkable outlook. She believed that God required that ...

You can find an essay by The Rev. Warner White , a retired Episcopalian minister, that addresses the problem of the contradiction we find be...

I started this blog way back in June, 2006. Here is it, 10 years later. Seems like ... well, 10 years. I aimed for an entry a day. I've ...

See if you can guess where this quote comes from. "Honor your father and mother" "Oh, yeah!" I can hear some saying. ...

This blog was originally named "Birds of the Air". The name that stuck was "Winging It", but there's still "bir...

Our understanding of God is too often predicated on our own redefinitions rather than on what He says about Himself. "A loving God woul...