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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…

“Sheep in Wolves’ clothing”. That’s what Jesus called people who pretended to be one thing while really being something else. They often masquerade as good and caring but are really…

We have heard the statistics about marriage for 50 years, clucking our tongues and making quick judgments about how they must have ended and why the couples didn’t do enough…