So, if you are a sinner, welcome to the club. If you feel that you fail more than succeed, welcome to the club. If you know that you don’t have your act together, welcome to the club.
Archives for 2021
Beware the Leaven
Formalism on the one hand, and rationalism on the other, which are but other names for the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees, have in every age been the Church’s insidious enemies.
Love and Fear
The truth is that I am not strong enough. And it is not my ability to love that will cast out fear. It is a right understanding of who God is and how much he loves me that will take away my fear.
An AHA moment
The only problem with this distortion is that in a fallen, broken world, there is a lot of stuff to be angry about. Even as very young children we encounter things that should make us angry.
Out from under the carpet
One of the things I dislike about the American church is our tendency to sweep issues under the rug. Rather than deal with problems with honest integrity, we too often hide and cover the problem as if the truth were something that would damage the church. What is ironic is that this behavior is practiced […]
Clinging to the rope
We are kept by a power not our own! Praise God that we don’t have to figure everything out. All we have to do is cling to Jesus.