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The Apostle Paul was a very devout, smart man, and I love much of what he wrote to the churches he was starting and overseeing – and there are also…

The day of Pentecost in the Book of Acts is when the disciples had their coming-out party. They were telling their faith stories in someone’s house, and the ruckus got…

Almost every future pastor is told the same lie – Don’t change anything for the first year in a new church. It has been called the “honeymoon period”, which in…

I have written before about the moment I lost faith in politicians. I was 14 years old, watching Pres. Nixon resign in shame. And while I know that politicians, especially…

Today’s Thoughts on God – Memory, For What It’s Worth Every New Year’s Eve or Day, my wife and I go through the calendar, remembering all of the amazing and…

It is a historical fact that both sides of the American Civil War thought that God was on their side – their fight, they believed, was a righteous, holy war.…

I have long maintained that I take the Bibles seriously, but not literally. What that means is that I read the English version (and some of the Greek), but I…

Aesop wrote this: “We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” This is the standard understanding of corruption: that a person who takes bribes, steals,…

We have seen this administration pick fights with anyone who disagrees with them. They either outright say, or snidely insinuate, that disagreeing with them is the same as being a…

I grew up with two ideas about equality. 1 – God made us all in God’s image, so we are all the same inside, and 2 – ever since America…