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For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven…a time to love, and a time to hate. - Ecclesiastes 3:1, 8 When I sat down to speak with a young, confused teenage girl about following Christ, she opened up a veritable fountain of questions, statements, and beliefs that all veered … Continue reading Holy Hatred
Here is the idea: if you have the ability, you should build/buy/rent a home with a spare bedroom(s) with the explicit purpose of using it for the Kingdom. There are many ways we can use our house for the Kingdom. You can have people over for meals, host a small group, use it to bless your own … Continue reading Use Your Big House to the Glory of God
Lead us, Evolution, lead usUp the future's endless stair;Chop us, change us, prod us, weed us.For stagnation is despair:Groping, guessing, yet progressing,Lead us nobody knows where.Wrong or justice, joy or sorrow,In the present what are theywhile there's always jam-tomorrow,While we tread the onward way?Never knowing where we're going,We can never go astray.To whatever variationOur posterity … Continue reading Lead Us, Evolution, Lead Us!
I recently preached on the Christian teaching of sex. One aspect that I didn’t have time to address was the end of sex. In the gospels, when asked about marriage in heaven, Jesus responds rather curtly that “they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven,” (Mark 12:25; Matt 22:30; Luke 20:34-36). … Continue reading Sex and Chocolate
“Another point is that on that view you would have to regard the accounts of the Man as being legends. Now, as a literary historian, I am perfectly convinced that whatever else the Gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and I am quite clear that they are not the … Continue reading Are the Gospels Legends? C.S. Lewis’ Reply
In reading of the relationship between Jonathan and David, one is struck by their depth of affection and commitment to one another: As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul...Then Jonathan made a covenant with … Continue reading Homosexuality and Friendship: Jonathan and David
The following is an unedited sermon manuscript; for an explanation of my sermon manuscripts, click here. *Originally preached in January 2022* Sermon Audio: To Die Is Gain (Phil 1:18-23) “Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, … Continue reading To Die Is Gain (Phil 1:18-23)
Occasionally Satan uses earth-shattering catastrophes in our life. Most of the times, however, the most effective temptations in our lives are the monotonous, mundane frustrations that pile up. Whether its picking up your kids' socks off the ground for the millionth time or sending that follow-up email because that person isn't responding, little frustrations can … Continue reading Satan and the Little Things
No sermon audio this week. Transcript: Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. – Matt. 5:8 Think of the last time you saw something great. What was it? Maybe it was a great concert of one of your favorite musicians. Maybe it was sitting around the table with family and … Continue reading The Pure (Matt. 5:8)
Friedrich Nietzsche, God’s alleged murderer/coroner, seemed to lack any fear of the chaos that God’s death would bring, but rather passionately plunged himself into the oncoming torrent of darkness.
Marc Sims 