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April 2022

April 11, 2022
"My truth" is simply a substitute self-righteousness that disregards the wisdom of the ages, the...

March 2022

March 09, 2022
When the Soviet block began to fold, one nation at a time, the Estonians didn’t...

February 2022

February 21, 2022
There are 380,000 evangelical churches in America with 90 million members. It’s intellectually dishonest to...

January 2022

January 26, 2022
It's that nostalgia for places I have never traveled. It's the love affair of Someone...
January 17, 2022
I've been behind some big ideas -- only to see them flame out. The great...
January 12, 2022
There is no perfect solution to our circumstances.  Not in freedom from rules nor can...

December 2021

December 16, 2021
The story of Mary and Joseph looking for a place to rest on the Holy...

November 2021

November 23, 2021
This last year hasn't been easy for anyone. We've lost friends and family, victims of...
November 08, 2021
In the face of a world that loves sin, that hates the idea of a...

October 2021

October 18, 2021
There is a reason authoritarians hate Christianity because we are an empowered people who answer...

September 2021

September 15, 2021
At some point, we must let go. Let go of the lies that once overpowered...

August 2021

August 26, 2021
Their fathers and grandfathers tell their stories, passed on from the generations. Some of the...
August 09, 2021
Much of the U.S.  is smothered in smoke. There are some 80 fires ablaze across...
August 04, 2021
To live and speak everything without complaint or argument punctures a hole in the Bad...

July 2021

July 29, 2021
There are at least two thousand known phobias. From Novercaphobia (fear of your step-mother) to...
July 27, 2021
When I was a teen, I worked at a local restaurant as a busboy. It...

June 2021

June 28, 2021
If we were super humans with cloaking power and extraordinary strength, we would rely on...
June 07, 2021
These are interesting times and the days will grow more evil. Rather than merely tolerating...

May 2021

May 05, 2021
I believe God is calling his leaders to roar. This is the moment of a...
May 03, 2021
Retrospect is a human luxury. It’s great to remember the good, the joyous journey of...

April 2021

April 29, 2021
I run from God too. When the hard sayings teachings make me wobble, the internal...
April 26, 2021
The arrogant presumption that what we know today is the correct view of history, that...
April 12, 2021
Now that Easter is over, my mind has been thinking about the days after his...

March 2021

March 23, 2021
It’s moments like this when people of faith need to rise to the occasion by...
March 17, 2021
If we don’t begin to embrace Grace, we will devolve into sheer and utter contempt...
March 08, 2021
There is a deep need for voices who can use their words to redeem this...

February 2021

February 15, 2021
Instead, live for the dash. These precious moments that God has given you to do...
February 03, 2021
A new release by Phil Keaggy and Jeff Johnson is the prescriptive medicine for all...
February 02, 2021
I catch myself looking backward sometimes. Places I’ve lived. People I've known. I remember those...

January 2021

January 11, 2021
Christian, you will be chastised, ostracized, removed. You’ll be an outsider, a nobody, a misfit, a lackey. You’ll be the last...
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