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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Holiday Song Poll

Christmas time ushers in two separate holidays and celebrations co-existing in one season.  Part of the party is about festive pagan remnants and tales that include flying Santas, mysterious gifts and good cheer, and strange elves making all sorts of gifts and goodies. Another part of the equation involves a unified recognition and focus upon [...]

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Growing Worse or Seeing Clearer?

One of the last lessons we effectually learn, is that true godliness is a constant conflict in a believer’s heart–between sin and holiness.  Some sincere believers mistake a clearer view, and deeper sense of their depravity, for an actual increase of sin. The Christian seems sometimes to himself, to be growing worse, when actually [...]

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Playing the Hypocrite

The book of James hits us like a two by four every time we read it.  The call to right behavior is a good tool for self-examination before God.  Watch this video. There is no dialogue. It doesn’t need any.

“From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things [...]

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God Loves a Cheerful Giver

It’s been said that if you want to know where a man’s heart is, follow his wallet.  Check out a man’s spending habits and you’ll see what he values the most.
Jesus put it this way in the gospel of Matthew chapter six,  “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and [...]

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Most Peculiar Momma

It is during times like these that I wonder where we will end up by the end of the year or decade.  Our financial horizons are so pathetically entrenched in political pandering that John McCain actually looks like a conservative and Barack Obama is being heralded as some revival juggernaut while the reality is that [...]

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A Bedrock and A Body

The church is not a building or a place of worship; the church is the assembled people of God. It is a family of believers who are united in Christ as a spiritual organism- unified by a common bedrock of faith.
Christ’s church is a holy and royal priesthood, a people set apart by grace and [...]

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Dead in Sin and Tresspasses or How We Managed to Rob the Girls Scouts with Glee

We hear the arguments often that man is basically good and that he only occasionally does bad things. Notwithstanding the definition of good being rightly defined, it doesn’t take too much effort to see man’s depravity at work. It isn’t difficult to see constant reminders of man’s wickedness. Just go to Google [...]

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A Call to Live in Faith Communities

Recently, I had the privilege of spending some time with a kindred spirit. I first met Dr. Grier a few years ago in Michigan and ever since then his heart has been knitted together with mine. It’s a strange union because we’ve not spent much time together nor have we been in the same circles [...]

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Gay Marriage, Spot and Beautiful Vases

I was in San Francisco right after the historic ruling that legalized gay marriage. Not that New Orleans is foreign to overt homosexual communities, but it was a bit surreal to actually be in the midst of the news rather than hearing about it from afar. California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald George has [...]

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