Jumping through Hoops – Part III

In our last installment of the interview we hear a few words of warning and encouragement to both daughters and their parents as to the dangers and unique challenges of the collegiate sports world.
What advice would you give parents whose daughters are involved in collegiate sports?
I think it is important to talk about this issue [...]

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Jumping through Hoops – Part II

Yesterday we heard about life in female collegiate sports and the challenge of being faithful in such a high homosexual context.
Today we continue the three part interview with Part II – The Struggle of the Hoops
As a Christian what challenges has this presented for you in living rightly before the Lord?
Well, first off… you are [...]

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Jumping through Hoops – Part I

A Christian friend of mine, who is a Division 1 female college basketball player, recently lamented about the state of female athletics in her school. Over time it has become increasingly more difficult to function freely as a heterosexual since that environment has become overrun with lesbianism.  In order to share her insights and experience [...]

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Gospel 101

The following is a brief presentation of the gospel.  Much of what we hear today in modern evangelicalism is a watered down version of the truth that has been sprinkled with palatable breath mints grown in a Finney-esque hydroponic barrel.  Far too many so-called proclaimers of truth speak of God loving everyone wily-nily as if [...]

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The GREEN Mandate

Yesterday was Earth Day – A day when hippies from around the world unite in geothermal bliss reminding the world yet again that the sky is not just falling, but that the earth is dying as well. Now I know that not every earth-bug is a hippie and not every environmentally conscience citizen is an [...]

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Fiddle Faddle

Supposedly Nero fiddled while Rome burned. There are times when I think we’re just fiddling away as well. Time is vaporized within the redemptive narrative as we find ourselves as points along an historical line. But this time line is not without purpose or reason; it is not the random whim of circumstance. Instead, [...]

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Persecution and Sacrifice

I just received a link to a story about the martyrdom of three brothers in Malatya, a Turkish province 300 miles northeast of Antioch. Read this account and pray. It is a stark reminder of what persecution exists in our dark world.
A Letter to the Global Church from the Protestant Church of Smyrna

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Living without Worldliness

“And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.” – Romans 12:2
The world. Such a simple word and yet it causes plenty controversy in the faith. [...]

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Death Be Not Proud

A few months ago my cousin Travis was murdered in the Atlanta area the result of an apparent drug encounter gone bad. I hadn’t seen him since I was about twelve years of age; he was about six years younger than myself.
This Sunday morning I found out that another cousin of mine Louie, [...]

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The Plecostomus Principle

Do you remember those stories of little Johnny juniors who had cute baby alligators as pets? And two missing dogs later they released it into the sewer system of the city where it became responsible for terrorizing amphibian tales? Well, there’s another pet problem just like it that involves a fish – the [...]

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