Start your New Year’s Resolution today. Right now. If we’re not serious about it on December 30th, we won’t be serious about it on January 1st. If it’s not important on December 30th, it won’t be important on January 1st. We’ll pretend that we’re serious about it, we’ll pretend that it’s important. But we’ll really only […]
Read MoreThere are few character traits more despised in our society than hypocrisy. And that Christians are accused of being hypocritical more than any other segment of society. As a Christian, I think that’s our own fault.
Read MoreThis time of year, when it seems the entire world is contemplating the birth of Christ, I think it’s good to be reminded of WHY He was born.
Read MoreWhy aren’t women foot-stomping mad? Why aren’t they writing angry letters to the editor or shouting from the rooftops or rioting in the streets? They’ve got plenty to be mad about….From Bruce Jenner being announced as the “woman” of the year and government sponsored abortions destroying families to the continued devaluation of their contribution to […]
Read MoreRandom thought after attending some training this week. If we won’t let people teach Kindergarten without a four-year degree and a teaching certificate and hands on training in the classroom…. If we have to fill out forms for the government to document that we’ve correctly taught our children to drive…. If teachers of all sorts […]
Read MoreA reoccurring theme throughout the New Testament is the freedom that Christ has blessed us with. He’s blessed us with freedom from shame, unhappiness and discontent, and most importantly the freedom from the consequences of our sin. But there is one thing that God hasn’t set us free from.
Read MoreI’ve mentioned before that our children’s very first look at God and His personality should be in us and how we treat them. A few days ago we talked about patience, and how God’s example of patience with us should show us how to be patient with our kids. But how does patience harmonize with discipline? […]
Read MoreWhere are our kids first exposed to God? In church? Sunday School? Bedtime Stories? I don’t think so. I think that our kids’ first look at God….Is (or at least-should be) in us, their parents.
Read MoreEveryone is clamoring again for gun control to end all of this senseless violence. So let’s see what kind of plan we’d actually need to accomplish that goal.
Read MoreI believe that we’ve created a monster. It’s not in our power-hungry government, not in our damaging tax code, not in our broken public school system. I believe we’ve created a monster in our churches.
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