WE WILL ALL BE SURPRISED

While we try to understand what is taking place in our nation and on the world stage and concern ourselves with those issues, something more significant is taking place. The end of the age is unfolding. Overconfidence in our interpretation of how the events of the end...

AN UNFILTERED CHURCH

A couple of years ago, I wrote something that angered a pastor. He wrote me privately and voiced his concern. He said since I was no longer a pastor, I should back off writing things that might encourage people in his church to consider a perspective that differed...
A LESSON FROM MR. FROGGY

A LESSON FROM MR. FROGGY

The photo depicts the last of Mr. Froggy. Mr. Froggy was a puppy play toy we bought for our dog, Ladybug when she was only 9 weeks old. What you are seeing is the surviving toe of a frog foot. We brought Mr. Froggy home two years ago and he was an immediate favorite...

A DIFFERENT STANDARD

God measures truth by a different standard than the world. The world measures truth by economic, academic, and social standards none of which are evil by themselves. Those interpretive standards can become evil if they are used to dismantle truth and offer the Church...

PRAYERS THAT STUMBLE DARKNESS

This week, I was reminded of a book I read 25 years ago by Tom Clancy titled Debt of Honor. In the book, Clancy describes a deteriorating relationship between Japan and the United States. As the book plot came to mind, I recalled the most dramatic scene in the book...