Cold Love

Matthew 24:9-14:
9“Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. 10At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, 11and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. 12Because of the [...]

Now I’ve Gone and Done It

Earlier this week, I was playing around on Facebook and filled out one of those lists of things about myself.  Maybe someday, I will post some of it on here or elaborate on them here.  But in the meantime, one of the things I posted caught the attention of my wife.  I mentioned that I [...]

Getting it Wrong, Getting it Right, and Getting out of the Way

This past week has been an amusing, troubling, profound and unusual one.  If that sounds like too much to pack into a single week to you, then you are not alone.  I got an enormous chuckle out of innaguration day.  It isn’t every day you hear a historic oath flubbed by two men to the [...]

I am That Masked Man

I couldn’t resist using the title.  It has now been just over a week or so since I started using the CPAP(continuous positive airway pressure) therapy to treat my sleep apnea.  The first week I was using one of those masks that covers your nose and sits on the front of the face.  It worked [...]

A Technical Embarrassment

I am sort of a tech geek.  I like messing with computers.  Heck my last couple of jobs before heading into the full-time pastoring ministry I now do were both computer and tech related in some way.  Sometimes I fail to give thought to making sure I am doing something the best way as long [...]

Amped up Spirituality

There are times in life when you really want to hear God speak.  I know that I wished more than once in my life that God would just show up and say a little something and clear up all the confusion.  I have heard people say that they have heard an audible voice from God, [...]

What Sin?

Sin can certainly be described as a failure to let God be God, that is what Paul was getting at in Romans 1 when he began to lay out the case that all have sinned.  And while it is true as far as it goes, sin is also a failure to meet God’s standard.  It [...]

Twilight Zone Moments

Last week over at the InternetMonk site, iMonk wrote a post entitled The Question is God; the Answer is Jesus.  The essay was very pointed and made it plain that in Christianity, any talk about God must come to Jesus or it is essentially meaningless.  Imagine my surprise today to run across an article on [...]

The Infamous Alberta Clipper

As a kid growing up in the south, I am pretty sure I heard the expression “Alberta clipper” a few times, but it obviously didn’t mean a whole lot and didn’t make much of an impression.  Now that I reside in North Dakota, the phrase means a whole lot more.  Complete interruption of routines, a [...]

Back to the Grind

Posting may be a little tougher for the next four months.  I have taken the ambitious route of two graduate classes in each of the next 8-week terms at Liberty.  I love the DLP program and I have found it to fit my needs as a student quite well.  Classes start on Monday with Greek [...]