Someone asked a group of us what we thought the opposite of love is. Hate, Selfishness, Rebellion, Apathy, and Fear all came up as possible answers. Good answers. Even some fairly interesting theology shuffling around in there. I prayed on it a bit and thought it over and after a while I decided perhaps LOVE [...]

Haiti
As many people know by now, Haiti has been devastated by an earthquake that registered 7.0 on the Richter scale. Many are wondering what can be done, how can we help, what do they need, how bad is it and is it getting worse. Photos here. Be warned, it is somewhat graphic. CNN’s IMPACT YOUR [...]

Humans strive for balance but tend to extremes. In fact, we all strive for balance precisely because we know we tend to extremes. Extreme right, extreme left or extremely center.
Front of the bus, middle of the road, back of the church.

A Call of Christian Conscience
Christians, when they have lived up to the highest ideals of their faith, have defended the weak and vulnerable and worked tirelessly to protect and strengthen vital institutions of civil society, beginning with the family.

Time to expand upon the fourth point I mentioned in my first post on this topic: the propaganda put about by the people behind the gay rights movement in the late 80s and 90s. The people behind this campaign saw that the best way to halt the growing public aversion to homosexual behaviour (that [...]

“The fact that we are even in the same genus makes me ashamed to call myself “homo”” Prof. Farnsworth – Futurama
I hope no one took offense to that; I figured we needed a good joke to lighten everyone up as this will likely prove very unpopular. Popularity, though, does not decide truth, nor do I. [...]

Two friends passed away this week. Frank Garrett, not quite forty, was in a motorcycle accident and Tom Morphis from severely aggressive cancer. I don’t know the details from either situation, but both friends went way back. Frank for 15 years or so, and I knew Tom going on 35 years as he was a [...]

I just got an email from a friend that moved me to post its contents. If you haven’t seen it, I hope it blesses you.
A lesson we should never forget:
Several years ago, a preacher from out-of-state accepted a call to a church in Houston, Texas. Some weeks after he arrived, he had an occasion to [...]

God has blessed me with a beautiful daughter and perhaps we will be blessed with more. Children are fantastic, but take a lot out of parents (and teachers, eh, Dave?).What I’m going to say here may prove un-popular in light of many “modern techniques” of child-rearing. Dr. Spock’s books have a lot of good stuff [...]

A great article by Will Braun from Geez Magazine covers some of the points I have been pondering of late. I often wondered – in light of recent political debates, activist acts, and mega-church programs – what happened to “love thy neighbor as thyself?”Braun makes a very good point, “If my involvement in a conflict [...]

Reference to Miyuki’s Question on Facebook:
Ah, this can get really deep here. You are asking questions that can be answered easily and naively, or that can be expounded into truths so profound as to change your very being.
1) When you hear “church” what do you think of?
“Church” in the sense that you have put [...]

Can a person be saved living a life of sin? Of course. When theyaccept Christ, they are saved once and for all. (Thank God forthat!!!)But the Bible exhorts us to test ourselves to see if we are really ofthe faith. If you really have faith in Christ, you won’t WANT to sin.We had the Law [...]