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I am a Christian, husband, father, church member, professor, & teacher who wants to help fellow pilgrims on our way to the Heavenly City.
Tag Archives: christianity
Cranky Grandpa Wisdom
I’ve been accused of being old fashioned. Some people have an inner child; I have an inner 90 year old man who finds himself increasingly disoriented by modern sensibilities, popular sentiments, and trendy trends. The nonagenarian is raging today for … Continue reading
Love Is Not Unkindly Honest or Dishonestly Kind
It’s easy to be unkindly honest and equally so to be dishonestly kind. Doing both at once is hard. It’s hardest when it matters most. When everyone is behaving, honesty and kindness get along fine. But everyone sins, makes stupid … Continue reading
Own Your Junk
Accountability. We all use the word and have a feeling it’s important. It’s demanded of our politicians, pastors, bosses, referees, spouses, and children, yet many of us conveniently avoid applying it to ourselves. Most of us couldn’t define it if … Continue reading
Correction Is a Gift Wrapped in Painful Paper
Correction is a valuable gift that often comes in ugly wrapping. The paper is sharp and it cuts your hands going in. There is life inside, but only the person who actually wants the good is brave enough to tear … Continue reading
Four Kinds of Sermons: Against, Without, Above, From
I’ve spent years thinking about preaching. First, as a listener at church. Later, as a pastor, the guy doing the preaching. Now, I teach it to new ministry students at Biola University, or at least I try. One thing I … Continue reading
Hell’s Cheerleaders (Or, the Unlove of Unconditional Affirmation)
Following Jesus involves a lot of intentional learning and a lot of intentional unlearning. Believers need their thoughts, feelings, and actions continually renewed by the life-giving truth of God’s Word and freed from the soul-destroying untruths of the world that … Continue reading
Courage, Dear Heart
I feel scared, a lot. As a teacher, I have begun many semesters thinking, “What am I getting myself into? What if I fail?” I have driven to many meetings feeling like an ulcer was forming in my stomach because … Continue reading
Screwtape Lives in Your Pocket
Robert Ordway retrieves an ancient danger in a modern device. C. S. Lewis published The Screwtape Letters in 1942, during World War II, when men faced extreme adversity and hard times. The fictional book is about a senior demon, Screwtape, … Continue reading
Love in the Right Order
Jesus gave us the golden rule: do to others as you would have them do to you. In love, that sounds like, “Love others the way you want to be loved.” Good rule. I think we sometimes misread it, though. … Continue reading
Is Your Life Built to Sink?
The Titanic was, by every measure available to human engineering, a triumph. Naval architects and shipbuilding journals called her practically unsinkable. She carried the finest materials, the most advanced construction techniques of her age, and a master crew that knew … Continue reading
