Leadership Lessons from the Book of Judges The people did as they saw fit in the book of Judges; things aren’t much different today The book of Judges is a curious one, containing some really questionable content, especially toward the end of the...
Are You a Friend of Sinners? It’s hard to embrace those who are different from us but we should The word sin is an unpopular one in today’s culture. Postmodern thinking rejects moral absolutes and advocates that anything goes. Under an ideal of...
The Near Death Experience of Jonah Live a life of obedience and without regret in order to finish strong Most people know the story of Jonah: God sends Jonah to help Nineveh. But Jonah gets in a boat headed in the opposite direction. God sends a...
The Bible Reveals God the Father to Us Father God is the star of the Old Testament; it explains his expectations and shows his care The story arc in the Bible is God’s relationship to us: the creator and his creation. Most people of faith—the...
What is the Cost of Obeying God? Jeremiah said what God told him to say and suffered for it Jeremiah’s time as a spokesman for God is filled with frustration. Not only do the people ignore what he tells them, they sometimes do exactly the...
Church Is For Girls The modern church is geared toward women and men don’t fit I have known the title for this post for a long time. In my heart I knew it was true, but I struggled to articulate why. Now I can. I read David Murrow’s book Why Men...
Sometimes God Tells Us Not To Pray The Bible is full of surprising verses that we will do well to explore Sometimes I see things that surprise me when I read the Bible—things I think shouldn’t be there. One example is when God tells Jeremiah to...
Why Does God Sometimes Say “No?” We must trust that God always has our best interest in mind regardless of what happens I recently prayed for a friend who was interviewing for a job. I have prayed for her interviews many times in the past only to...
Should Church Be a Place of Refuge, Like a City of Refuge in the Bible? If we don’t protect the innocent from retribution, who will? God tells Joshua to establish cities of refuge, a safe place for people to seek sanctuary. The specific context...
Do We Need to Include the Lament in Our Sunday Worship Services? Expressions of grief and sorrow abound in the Psalms but the church has forgotten how to lament In the churches I have attended throughout my life and visited in the past few years...
