February 27, 2024

When I was a pastoral student at Liberty University in 1989, I made a commitment to Jesus to read the Bible ten chapters a day until I had read it 100 times.  I began this commitment on August 16, 1989, and I fulfilled this commitment on February 27, 2024. It took me 34 ½ years to read the Bible 100 times. It should have taken me 33 1/3. I should have finished it about 500 days sooner. So, I missed... Read more

February 1, 2024

DEALING WITH THE PERCEPTION OF BEING “JUDGMENTAL” REGARDING THE NON-ATTENDANCE OF SAME SEX OR TRANSGENDER CEREMONIES Recently I wrote an article in response to the controversy created by Pastor Alistair Begg’s remarks and advice regarding a Christian’s attendance at a same sex or transgender ceremony. This reignited the debate over being judgmental toward others. Being judgmental has somehow become the unpardonable sin of our society. Disagreeing has quickly become “hate” speech and has been classified as “Pharisaical” because all of... Read more

January 27, 2024

A RESPONSE TO ALISTAIR BEGG’S: “CHRISTIANS SHOULD ATTEND THE CEREMONY OF A SAME SEX OR TRANSGENDER RELATIONSHIP, EVEN TAKE A GIFT” A few years ago, I had the privilege of attending a pastor’s luncheon at Focus On The Family with guest speaker, Alistair Begg. I jumped at this opportunity and thoroughly enjoyed my time listening to Pastor Begg rightfully divide the Word of God and encourage we pastors in Colorado Springs with the importance of faithfulness to God and to... Read more

January 23, 2024

“A NETWORK OF PASTORS WILL FALL”   As the calendar year turns from 2023 to 2024 one of the constant sad realities in Christian News is the perpetual, continual, and repeated reality of Pastors and well-known Ministry Leaders being exposed on a seemingly weekly basis for their chronic, ongoing, long-going hidden sin. It grieves all of us, but it is not a new phenomenon.   Thousands of years ago, the prophet Ezekiel dealt with the exact same things we are... Read more

November 14, 2023

THE GOOD PASTORS ARE UNDER SIEGE   The Good pastors of the world are under siege!   I have been a Senior Pastor of the same Southern Baptist Church, Vanguard Church, in Colorado Springs for the past twenty-six years. My wife, Tosha, and I, started the church twenty-six years ago as North American Mission Board church planters for the Southern Baptist Convention.   Recently I hosted a city-wide pastor gathering in our city and prayed with forty other pastors for... Read more

October 21, 2023

IS ISRAEL RIGHT TO FIGHT?   We are now a few weeks into Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Every night when I turn on the evening news, I hear this question in some form or another, “Is Israel justified to do what it is doing to the people in the Gaza Strip?” As followers of Jesus Christ, all our actions must be justified by His Holy Word. Jesus tells us that we are to turn the other... Read more

October 20, 2023

FORGIVENESS IS A GIVEN, TRUST IS A GIFT In this world of social media where everyone has the capacity to say what they want immediately to anyone who will listen, the increase in hostility, betrayal, offense, and thus the need for forgiveness and restored trust become front and center. I know, personally, several ministry leaders and pastors who have chosen to give up on social media all together as a personal pursuit, because of the access it affords everyone to... Read more

September 5, 2023

WHY I STAYED A PASTOR: A RESPONSE TO PASTOR LANG’S ARTICLE: “WHY I LEFT THE CHURCH”     Recently Pastor Alexander Lang published an article, that blew up on social media over Labor Day Weekend, about his resignation from his congregation, the First Presbyterian Church of Arlington Heights. He said this:   “I have become a part of what is known as the Great Pastor Resignation that came in the wake of the pandemic. Barna did a national survey of... Read more

August 27, 2023

IS JESUS YOKE WOKE? Recently I posed the question, “Is Jesus Yoke Woke?” on my social media page thread to an audience predominately Christian.   My opening statement was, “Jesus asks us to carry his yoke not give into the woke.”   This sparked a myriad of responses, some affirming, some opposing, and some down-right degrading.   I realize the initial post carries with it a lot of emotional weight, but I also know as believers in God’s Word, making... Read more

August 7, 2023

Who Was The First Female Evangelist In The New Testament?   The role of women in church leadership today is a hot topic.   How do conservative evangelical churches make sense of the tensions and differences of opinion on what the Bible has to say about “women in ministry?”   I have written extensively on this issue in this CP article: https://www.christianpost.com/voices/a-so-baptist-pastors-response-to-sbc-decision-on-female-pastor.html   The question I want to answer in this article today is, “Who was the first woman evangelist... Read more


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