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Our country is presently reeling as we see the divide of our country deepen and the voices on both sides grow louder. It is a sad reality, and for many, a reality that only a few years ago would have been something seen on a distant land not in our own backyard. Many people point back and forth from race to riot to reform but the main thing that is not spoken of is redemption. Billy Graham said there will…

In light of the recent riots and looting, we must begin to consider the underlying issue of justice, and what justice actually is. What you recognize as an injustice and how you respond to an injustice says everything about your personal worldview of justice. Justice is always rooted in your view of ultimate reality. Does the buck lie in the person and character of God or is it reduced to individual subjectivity of our own created reality. If we see…

Many of us have grown up in church and have become so familiar with the lingo that the Biblical words we use have somewhat lost their meaning. We have spiritually at some level become deaf to Christian terminology and important truths of Scripture which over time can affect our spiritual intimacy with Jesus. This is why I’ve said many times in talks that one of the most important elements of discipleship is the willingness to unlearn. Unlearning terms or meanings…

Where are you with your life? Where are you in dealing with this pandemic? Where are you really underneath the surface where no one can go but you? Where are you in all this?             After Adam and Eve disobeyed God to basically become a god for themselves they heard the Lord God walking in the garden looking for them. The Bible says the Lord ask the first question of Scripture to them when He asked them, “Where are you?”…

This past Sunday we did the drive-in church thing, and it was a lot of fun!!! People got to be together even when we can’t get together. It was good to see friendly faces sitting in their car wanting to be a community of faith again.             This brings up a very important topic to discuss, which is, “Why are we so inclined for community?” Now of course, there will be a few hermits, and I can even be one…

This past Sunday we celebrated the greatest day of human history when Christ came back to life again after defeating the powers of death. Now, in the aftermath of such an event, we must ask, now what? What do we do with such an event, and how should it affect us today as believers? The straightforward answer is…transformation! We are to be transformed ourselves and also in the business of transforming this world.             The hardest person to look at…

This week is what is known as Holy Week or Passion Week. It is the last week in the life of Christ before His Death, Burial, and Resurrection. It is what we believers would say is the most important week in human history because during this week we see love at its finest, evil at its darkest, and victory over the enemy of death at its greatest.             On what is known as Good Friday (good for us, but terrible…

We live in a day and time of unchartered territory. If we realize nothing else in this “Coronavirus scare” we should realize this: What a weak and frail society we are in a sense of panic. No doubt we should take precautionary practices to prohibit the Coronavirus, or any virus for that matter, from spreading, but may we please use our heads about all of this. This has revealed, if nothing else, that we have a lot of work to…

Arrogant people are hard to deal with and especially to get along with. It takes a lot of patient endurance to deal with someone who thinks more highly of themselves than they should. The truth is we are all arrogant at some level over something. If we are honest within ourselves we all struggle with thinking too much of ourselves or our self-importance. Let me first begin with a few questions for us to ask ourselves: Am I an open…

For the believer joy is a fruit of the spirit. To know that our sins are forgiven, our account is cleared, graced bestowed, and hope granted should create an inner celebration for those who have put their faith in Christ Jesus. Therefore, as followers of Christ, our perspective of life should be different than the rest of the world not rooted in the circumstances of life but in the reality of a loving and forgiving God. My question for us…