EYES WIDE OPEN

For some reason, many within the Church think the New Testament represents a positive cuddle-fest. They have been taught a cinematic version of a white European Jesus who seems to levitate across culture never raising His voice or addressing error.  Their...

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...

SEEING THE OLD ROADS

When I was a young boy traveling with our family my dad would occasionally call out to my brother and me, “Look! There’s the old road.” What my father was pointing out were the abandoned stretches of old highways that had become either a frontage road leading to...

The Threads of Life

Every life has threads of revelation that will appear over a lifetime. Discovering those threads builds our faith and affirms God’s presence in our lives. Recently, I was having a conversation with a friend. He asked, “When are you going to write your next...

A New Era

In the last few months, I’ve had conversations with several friends who are able to see and interpret where the Church and culture stand in this particular moment in history. The word “era” is used in these conversations to describe what is transpiring historically....