Love the Sinner, Hate Your Own Sin
Vocalist and faith-based comedian Mark Lowry was speaking to an audience at a Bill Gaither show about how we come to love other people. He touched on several points that spoke about his past, always...
View ArticleBlaming God for Your Mistakes, Pain
The last guy you dated was a total asshole. He treated you like crap and then was upset that you didn’t like his rather douchy behavior. I mean, he can behave the way he wants, right? After all, you...
View ArticleGod Isn’t Going to Fix You Overnight
You’ve been fighting, and praying, and wishing you could walk away from your brokenness. If only you could heal over that wound in your heart that has kept you in pain night after night, has kept your...
View ArticleMy God Shall Supply All My Needs
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. - Psalm 23:1 There are days when this road is tougher than others, days when I don’t want to think about or effort towards knowing God. Days when I’d rather...
View ArticleGod doesn’t need you to put Him into Government
People struggle to argue that we were made as a Christian nation, and they argue correctly based on a rather broad range of history. They can’t argue that all forefathers were Christian or wanted it to...
View ArticleFaith is Presence of Choice, Not Lack of Doubt
Sometimes I feel silly thinking about things Christians believe. The speaking in tongues, miracle healing, one man dying for the sins of others who also is God and the son of God, Father God and...
View ArticleI Wish You Had Told Her Sooner
Cindy sighed, staring outward from the wooden ship sailing through the clouds toward a magnificent gate that rose like a mountain before her. The ship docked at a cliff that met the clouds as a shore...
View ArticleWhat I have seen, too soon forget
I will be judgmental, close-minded and haughty. I will be foolhardy, ill-conceived and mistaken. I will complain, gripe and grumble. I will wish I were elsewhere, hate where I am, and find ways not to...
View ArticleThe Power of Intimate Unification
There is power in intimacy, and there is pleasure, too. We humans are built for relationship — there are few more powerful entities in our lives than relationship. For all our efforts, our ambitions,...
View ArticleEveryone’s Relationship with God is Different
I do not know God like you know God, nor do you know God like I know God. If you don’t believe in the God I believe in, I have no judgment at all of how you exercise your faith, other than to hope that...
View ArticleLetting Me Paddle My Way Out
Sometimes my relationship with God feels nonexistent. It’s like I’m just wrapped up in myself, even when I am exhausted with it. Even when I want to run back to my Father, it feels like I just have no...
View ArticleLaws of God Like a Radio Telescope
Have you ever seen a radio telescope? They’re pretty cool. Instead of looking by sight, they interpret all sorts of radio and gamma waves like we listen to audio waves and over time and listening, they...
View ArticleLearn from People, Trust in God
Ted Haggard, Jim Bakker, John Geoghan, Paul Shanley, Bernard Law, Jimmy Swaggart, Robert Tilton … These are difficult names to hear for many Christians. But you can actually go beyond Christians....
View ArticleShrouds, Saints and Relationship
So the pope supports the Shroud of Turin as the authentic burial shroud of Jesus of Nazareth, who became Christ, to die for the world. He has named it an icon, promoting it as connected to the King of...
View ArticleMessages of the Faithful
I recently made online friends with a young lady and struck up a conversation on faith. We got into semantics and in many regards she won the debate. But then it turned cold and biting, and I backed...
View ArticleThe Rock in the River
You’ve been trying to keep things together at work, at home, with your friends … but things are beginning to fall apart. The same relationships you so depended on are beginning to crumble. The...
View ArticleEven When you Foul Up, Stay the Course
As a believer, we are called to know God. That means several things, least of which is to know “about” God. We are to read His Word, stay in prayer and communication, and like the Jews — who defined...
View ArticleDebt and Forgiveness – Pt 1/3
Teddy jumped at the sound of pounding at his door. Disoriented from his deep sleep, he tried pulling the sheet aside as he rolled toward the edge of the bed only to get his feet caught, falling down...
View ArticleDebt and Forgiveness – Pt 2/3
See Debt and Forgiveness Pt 1 Teddy pulled up in his new car and climbed out, a grin on his face as he tossed the keys to the valet and waltzed inside. Passing the maitre d. He spotted Sissy sitting in...
View ArticleDebt and Forgiveness – Pt 3/3
“Is it here? Did he come?” Teddy rushed through the front door, pulling to loosen his tie. “No,” Sissy drawled as she laid out staring at the next episode of Bridezilla, her face melting onto the arm...
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