Discipleship Do Cigars and Jesus Go Together? 1 Sep 2016 Tim Weshe, a longtime friend of mine who kindly offered to review my upcoming book, Special Graces in Common Places, sent me an email yesterday with some of the initial…
Grace… Sin Is Dangerous. But… 31 Aug 2016 Sin is dangerous. Don't ever make the mistake of thinking that gossip, anger, greed, pride, adultery, or any other sin you might have done or be tempted to, won't be harmful…
Books… “The only way to understand the Scriptures is…” 30 Aug 2016 Love this quote from Oswald Chambers' excellent book, Our Ultimate Refuge: Job and the Problem of Suffering (location 1547, Kindle ed.). There is always a tendency to produce an absolute…
A Tale of Three Women… A Tale of Three Women 2.0 28 Aug 201630 Aug 2016 Introduction: Several years ago I posted this sermon of mine. I remains one of the top posts on my blog. I have had opportunity to bring this message to four…
Forgiveness… We Get it Not Just to Live in it, But to Give It 27 Aug 2016 God did not show you grace just so you could breathe again. He gave it to you so you could show the same grace to someone else so they can…
Forgiveness… Forgiveness In a Nutshell 22 Aug 2016 Colossians 3:13 says we are to forgive as the Lord forgave you. How do we live that out? How do we forgive as God has forgiven us? When we forgive…
Quotes… Yup 22 Aug 2016 Learning that truth won't make any problem less of a problem, but it does make every problem look a lot different.