Many years ago, I heard a story about a magician whose magic show included a boa constrictor. The snake was young and small and the magician draped it over his shoulder while he did some of his other tricks. It added a dramatic element to...
Hear me out… Isaiah 1:18 says, “Come, let us reason together.” Can we do that? Trump is the most polarizing President since the Civil War President, Abraham Lincoln. Many people are so anti-Trump that the mere mention of his name causes knee-jerk opposition among Christians and non-Christians alike....
The purpose of this blog – the reason why I write it – is to help people “walk closer with God and live better in life.” Usually I’m just talking to myself. That is, I’m sharing things that have been helpful to me in my...
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinions, but he is not entitled to his own facts.” So said former New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. In doing so, he captured one of the most important truths for our time. Truth is truth, and it doesn’t change no...
As we continue to look to Scripture for insight into the challenges we face in the current cultural and political upheaval in the United States, we see that the answers are very simple. They are not easy. But they are simple. The offending party must repent....
Last week I made the point that our current political upheaval is not political or cultural in its origin – but is spiritual. Our problem is, as Alexander Solzhenitsyn said, “Men have forgotten God.” We also made the point, from James 3:15-16, that worldly wisdom is...
Men have forgotten God Alexander Solzhenitsyn, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize for literature, was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and communism, and as a result, spent years in the Soviet Gulag, a forced labor-camp system. Through worldwide political pressure, he was eventually freed,...
Winston Churchill is often regarded as the master of insults. You may be familiar with his famous exchange with Lady Astor after she said, “Winston, if you were my husband, I’d put poison in your coffee. Churchill replied “And if you were my wife, I would...
In the current season of unusual controversy and conflict in our nation, Christians must make sure we get our cues on how to respond to conflict, not from culture but from Scripture. So much of our conversation has degenerated into name-calling, issue-baiting, and knee-jerk overreactions. Less...
Saturday is Independence Day in the USA – the 4th of July! This is a hard year to be happy celebrating the 4th of July. Many fireworks displays have been cancelled because of the Coronavirus pandemic, and the political polarization in our country right now...