The Dark Side of Solomon
There are times I succumb to, what I call, the dark side of Solomon. There, Solomon’s darkness replaces hope with pessimism and adverse history eclipses faith’s optimism. It is there, in that place, all becomes vanity. ...
“little tin gods”
Truthfully, I couldn’t tell you how many times I have read through the New Testament in my 40 years as a believer. Following my conversion in 1982, I completed it the first time by reading 30 minutes...
A Mic Drop Moment
Over the last several months I have been moving my office of 18 years from the church building back home. In the seemingly endless endeavor, I uncovered a plethora of items totally deleted from my memory. Most...
The Gospel Paradigm: The Challenge to the Church
Paradigm: the general accepted perspective of a particular discipline at any given time. The challenge to the church: the gospel must be the background to all that believers are and do. We must be actively looking...
Work of Faith, Labor of Love—We’re Called to Both
I find it interesting that Paul used two different words—work and labor, when they seem so similar—as he defined the Thessalonian believers: “constantly bearing in mind your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope...
Discernment in Spiritual Maturity
In my post last Saturday, I stated the following. “Not all discernment is as overtly supernatural like was seen in Peter and Paul, but all spiritual discernment must take root in the Holy Spirit.” And while...