Unbelief – and Faith

Unbelief says:
Some other time, but not now;
some other place, but not here;
some other people, but not us.
Faith says:
Anything He did anywhere else He will do here;
anything He did any other time He is willing to do now;
anything He ever did for other people He is willing to do for us!
With our feet on the ground, [...]

The True King

“In the greatest display of obedience (and love) that will ever be known, Jesus took the full chalice of Man’s sin and God’s wrath, looked shuddering, deep into its depth and in a steel act of his will, drank it all”. Kent Hughes

More on Michael

So the king is dead. What a sad end to a sad life; a pathetic end to a pathetic life (by which I mean to use pathetic in its true sense as “arousing pity and sympathy). I don’t know that I have ever seen, in one man, such a combination of self-love and self-loathing, shocking [...]

Farah Fawcett and Michael Jackson

He had it made. She did as well.
He was world-famous. She was world-famous.
He was brought up as a Jehovah’s Witness and converted to Islam. She was reared as a Catholic.
He was a brilliant musician and showman. She was a beautiful and successful actress.
He was the envy of so many. She was the object of [...]

From one younger Southern Baptist

Those of you who have various versions of autocratic church governments that never give the ordinary hoi polloi the microphone may look down your noses at allowing people to make motions to ban books, adopt flags and boycott Pepsi, but our circus has a lot to commend it over your imitation of the Vatican. Public [...]

Give me 100 preachers who fear nothing but sin…

“No, Aleck, no! The danger of ruin to Methodism does not lie here. It springs from quite a different quarter. Our preachers, many of them, are fallen. They are not spiritual. They are not alive to God. They are soft, enervated, fearful of shame, toil, hardship. . . . Give me one hundred preachers who [...]

Our greatest danger

“Your danger and mine is not that we become criminals, but rather that we become respectable, decent, commonplace, mediocre Christians. The twentieth-century temptations that really sap our spiritual power are the television, banana cream pie, the easy chair and the credit card. The Christian wins or loses in those seemingly innocent little moments of decision. [...]

Zombies…

Top Ten Ways to Ruin Young Pastors.

One of the greatest gifts to the church of Jesus Christ is the emergence of so many gifted, passionate and Gospel-loving young adults in ministry leadership.
One of the responsibilities – and joys – of older guys – like me – is to encourage, cheerlead, run interference for and guide young leaders.
Truthfully, I’ve learned [...]

Danny? We thought you said…

The children begged for a hamster; and after the usual fervent vows that they alone would care for it, they got one. They named it Danny. Two months later, when Mom found herself responsible for cleaning and feeding the creature, she located a prospective new home for it.
The children took the news of Danny’s imminent [...]

Why planes crash

Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Outliers, has a fascinating explanation of why planes crash. There are so many parallels to why teams fail, why ministries get sidelined, and why marriages run into problems.
Plane crashes rarely happen in real life the same way they happen in the movies. Some engine part does not explode in a fiery [...]