Blaming the Victim

For most of my life I have heard women’s stories about how they have been abused by men. Every single one of them who was willing to talk about it…

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Spiritual Grownups

Jesus used nature a lot when describing what faithful living was supposed to be like. He told a story about a man who owned property that had a tree that…

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Transform, Not Conform

I seem to be stuck in Romans 12 this week; bear with me – this is some of the Apostle Paul’s best work. The chapter starts by telling the reader…

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Overcome Evil With Good

Yesterday, I wrote about love being genuine. This is part of Paul’s Letter to the Romans, and in that chapter (12), there is a long laundry list of expectations of…

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Let Love Be Genuine

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…

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Knowledge Matters

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…

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Doing a New Thing

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…

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A Culture of Lies

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…

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Memory, For What It’s Worth

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…

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On God’s Side?

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.…

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