Think of this as an exercise in taking a year-end inventory of your life and cultivating the spiritual soil for an abundant harvest in the year ahead. Taking stock of your spiritual life Get out your 2016 calendar, your journal, your Bible and your check register. Slowly, soberly look through them and take stock. Bible…
During an interview with Oprah Winfrey last week, First Lady Michelle Obama unmasked our national political problem. Oprah asked, “Your husband’s administration, everything, was all about hope. Do you think that this administration achieved that?” Here is the response: Yes, I do. Because we feel the difference now. Now, we’re feeling what not having hope…
It’s our responsibility as Christians to give what’s real this Christmas. The human memory is a mysterious thing. We can feel like a distant moment “happened only yesterday” but can’t remember what we ate for lunch. Or we can be certain we are recalling an event exactly as it happened, only to be find that our…
Christmas is the time of year Christians have the home field advantage. Arguably the biggest global holiday of the year centers around the birth of one person: Jesus Christ. Jesus may be now be sharing the stage with a whole cast of characters from Santa Claus to Frosty to the Nutcracker but He is still…
What you will need for great family fun (and significant learning) during Advent: A Quarter Several varieties of grapes (or grape flavored items) Smiley sticker A little “surprise” in a brown paper bag (it would be great if were full of gummy fish!) A birthday candle Bell “Goldfish” fish-shaped crackers Watch “weather on the 8’s”…
Fifty percent of the American population woke up today in a nation where they don’t feel they belong. Some are fearful for their and their children’s future. There is a great need for reconciliation, a restoration of the United nature of these American states. That is an opportunity for Christians today. As we walk as…
Last week we celebrated the 499th anniversary of the Reformation. I talked about four of the five Solas of the Reformation in a series I called “A Sola A Day to Drive the Heresies Away.” The five Solas were Latin phrases that emerged as slogan of the Protestant Reformation. Today we consider Solus Christus —…
This week we’re looking at the 5 Solas of the Reformation. We’ve talked about the book ends: Sola Scriptura and Sola Dei Gloria and about Sola Gratia. Today we look Sola Fide – faith alone. I call this series “A Sola A Day to Drive the Heresies Away.” The five Solas were Latin phrases that…
This week we’re looking at the five Solas of the Reformation. We’ve talked about the book ends: Sola Scriptura and Sola Dei Gloria — and today we look what it means to be saved by grace alone: Sola Gratia. I call this series “A Sola A Day to Drive the Heresies Away.” To review: On…
Scientists recently confirmed small lies lead to big lies and more lying. Science is a method, a process of inquiry. So we should not be surprised when scientific research confirms what revelation has already made known to us in God’s word. According to an article in The Guardian: “Scientists have uncovered an explanation for why…