A Minute to Stop and Think

State of the Union 2020

I learned two very important things. The first is that the choice in the upcoming election should be pretty easy for Christians. We could see with our own eyes the party platforms. One stands against what we believe and the other does not. The second thing I learned is that the terrorist Soleimani missed a really great speech.

I don't like my pastor.

I discovered a statistic suggesting that at any given moment in a church’s life, 30% of the congregation may not like the pastor.

The Hypocrisy of the NFL

Say, wasn’t that a phenomenal Super Bowl this year? Not only was it a spectacular competition of brawn that more than proved the biological differences between genders, but it also teased out the NFL’s hypocrisy with regard to the social justice issues it’s trying so hard to embody.

Closed Communion is Actually a Thing

A Roman Catholic Priest in Grand Rapids, Father Scott Nolan, is being attacked for refusing Communion to a practicing homosexual, who also happens to be a local judge. Believe it or not, closed communion is a thing. Saint Paul used a lot of ink defining it in First Corinthians 10 and 11.

It's Time to Say No

Election season is upon us. Pastors, it’s time. It's time to remind your people they are Christians who live and believe according to the Bible.

Chick-fil-A caved?

The evidence seems clear, but maybe it’s all in my head. Maybe the progressives destroying bakers, florists, the Boy Scouts, adoption agencies, and countless others had little impact on Chick-fil-A. The abrupt change in direction is probably—just as Dan Cathy, the CEO, said—about new markets and being who you are. It’s all about chicken.

Repentant Joy

“With repentant joy we receive the salvation accomplished for us by the all-availing sacrifice of His body and His blood on the cross.” That’s a strange sentence in the Eucharistic Prayer. It’s peculiar because within it, the petitioners fashion the seemingly opposite words of “repentant” and “joy” into a singular, personal descriptor.

The Middle Spaces in the Lives of Children

From boy to man, from girl to woman, all of the space in between is even now undecided—the character, the imagination, the belief systems, the ways that life will be lived, the caliber of man sought for a husband and the measure of a woman desired for a wife—all of these will be collected along the way and will simmer in this middle space.

Christian complacency and abortion don't mix very well.

Pastors, people, get in the game. Quit complaining and engage.

Good Luck with That

When the world faces off with a Christian positioned on a foundation that knows Death has been defanged, and as the “last enemy to be destroyed” (1 Corinthians 15:26), has been ultimately defeated by the resurrection of Jesus—the world had better rethink its strategy against such a person. They won’t roll over so easily.