Before you minister to a same-sex couple …
Are you prepared to minister to a homosexual? Can God use you to help someone committed to a...
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YOU can’t be neutral! What’s your choice?
For most issues in life – and on social media – I find that I can be neutral. Time after time I...
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#LoveWins What’s Love Got To Do With It?
Stop Your Hating and Start Your Loving! We can disagree in humility and love. We cannot assume that someone else is hating just because they say something with which we disagree.
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Memorial Day: A Teaching Opportunity
Memorial Day is much more than just the start of summer vacation season. Memorial Day is for...
Read MoreA Thank You Note To Moms
A Thank You Note to Mothers A mere “Thank you” doesn’t seem adequate to cover the depth of our gratitude for mothers in God’s gracious plan for humanity. This blog is for you, mom. However, the space is inadequate to describe...
Read MoreThanksgiving Reflections
How today can we be thankful in light of the recent events? Ferguson Because of Ferguson, we are reminded of the depth of our own depravity as a people. Pressures surround this issue. The justice system cannot and will not...
Read MoreMy 100% GUARANTEE on This Election
There are so many questions still related to what is ultimately going to happen in this election. Who knows what will happen today? I hear many on both sides of the isle say what they “think” – which in most cases is no more...
Read MoreYou and sin must quarrel if you and God are going to be friends. J.C. Ryle
You and sin must quarrel if you and God are going to be friends. – J.C. Ryle Share this:FacebookXLike this:Like...
Read MoreTake heed to yourselves…
Take heed to yourselves, lest you live in those sins which you preach against in others, and lest you be guilty of that which you daily condemn. -Richard Baxter Share this:FacebookXLike this:Like...
Read MoreWhen you pen your sermons…
When you pen your sermons, little do you think that you are drawing up indictments against your own souls! – Richard Baxter Share this:FacebookXLike this:Like...
Read MoreMy Report: From the Cheap Seats #CCEF14 #ACBC2014
I’ve always chuckled a bit whenever someone recognizes his viewpoint is from the cheap seats; however, I think that works this time. I’m not on the board at either the Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation (CCEF @ccef)...
Read MoreNotes from “When Your Counselee Wants To Quit” by Tim Keeter and Kevin Carson
Here is the PDF file from Kevin Carson’s PowerPoint file for Tim Keeter’s session, “When Your Counselee Wants To Quit” presented at the Association of Certified Biblical Counseling annual conference...
Read MoreSession Notes for “Prayer as part of Spiritual Warfare”
These are the notes for the session “Prayer as part of Spiritual Warfare: A Consideration of Ephesians 6:10-20” for the Association of Biblical Counselors 2014 annual conference at Grace Community Church, Sun Valley,...
Read MoreA New Reason to Celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Month
This October is a special breast cancer awareness month for me for yet another reason. Over the past several years, I have taken the opportunity to celebrate this month by commemorating those who have been in this battle. No one...
Read MoreYesterday, Tomorrow, Today is a GIFT from God
Yesterday is HISTORY Tomorrow is a MYSTERY Today is a GIFT from GOD – that is why they call today the PRESENT. Share this:FacebookXLike this:Like...
Read MoreLive To Finish the Work God Has Given You To Do
Don’t live your life just until it ends…Live to finish the work God has given you to do. Share this:FacebookXLike this:Like...
Read MoreFerguson: Take Two
I confess. After my last blog related to Ferguson, I have continued to read, observe, listen and think. Based on Proverbs 18, I stand by everything I wrote. My hope in the previous blog was to encourage all of us – regardless of...
Read MoreLessons To Be Learned From Ferguson (Or At Least Reminders!): A Pastor’s Response
Tragedy. Unthinkable. Horrible. This past weeks’ events in Ferguson, Missouri reveal again the struggles of living as sinners together in a broken world. Most days we live without an awareness of the tensions that exists...
Read MoreWhenever you look at, remember, and do God’s Word… #James1:25
Whenever you look at, remember, and do God’s Word, you will be inevitably changed and blessed.#James1:25 Share this:FacebookXLike this:Like...
Read MoreDo Your Best! #BackToSchool
Do Your Best! Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:31) Share this:FacebookXLike this:Like...
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