It’s a battle we fight almost every day. It’s deeply ingrained in our American souls. It is so ubiquitous that we rarely even notice it. It seduces us. It drives us. It can even enslave us if we are not careful. If you dare challenge it, you run the risk of being run out of …
I read that quote recently and for some reason it has continued to rattle around in my brain and rattle me personally. In our culture where almost everything is evaluated based on “productivity” and “efficiency” truly biblical love is often tossed aside because it doesn’t “work”….meaning it doesn’t produce the desired results in an efficient …
“I can’t believe how out of touch the church is with the reality of what is happening in our culture. There is no way we can expect to reach the culture with our archaic and irrelevant posture.” “The church has completely lost its distinctiveness in our generation. There is no way the church can expect …
Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also – Matthew 6:21 Jesus warned us about storing up treasure for ourselves here on this planet where moth and rust destroy it and thieves can rip it off. We should be contributing regularly to our heavenly 401K plan where Dow Jones downturns and the uncertainty …
Seen any Trojan Horses lately? My wife and I recently did as we watched Pleasantville – a seemingly innocuous movie which details the lives of two ‘90’s teenagers sent back to experience life in a 1950’s sitcom similar to “Father Knows Best”. This brother and sister teenage duo are miraculously transported by a TV repairman …
Not again! The words sounded so familiar as I talked on the phone with my closest spiritual friend. Deja Vu disappointment set in as I heard another tale of a friend who was the leader of a prominent youth ministry in a large city succumbing to temptation. I was reminded of Oscar Wilde’s famous quip, …
I can’t remember now where I read it but it struck me…hard. It was a psychologist musing that the primary emotion he sees in 21st century Americans – who have such abundance, such a variety of choices, such comfortable lives – is disappointment. Life, despite all the bounty we experience in the modern world, doesn’t …
I was having lunch with a close friend a few days ago and the conversation turned to spiritual topics and we briefly discussed the mystery of prayer in light of the fact that God is sovereignly in control of all things. After resolving that paradox between bites of my tuna sub and a bag of …
