The Election
April 13, 2016 It’s impossible to ignore: the political season is upon us. Actually that’s not correct. It never stopped. Which wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t so banal and brutal. It’s a puzzlement...
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February 18, 2016 They sat nervously. They had successfully planned the wedding, the reception, and the honeymoon. The new apartment was rented and furnished. In their minds they had done “everything”...
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January 16, 2016 For decades Christian leaders have complained about the increasing secularization of American society. Soon they may wish that were the case. What is coming may prove to be far worse....
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December 17, 2015 The story is told of a rooster that was free-ranging one afternoon, when he encountered something that staggered him: an ostrich egg. He was so impressed by its size, that he decided...
View ArticleWhy Churches Die
November 30, 2015 Like people, churches age and grow old! Every one of us has visited churches that have seen better days; days when the worship was vibrant, the teaching was inspired, souls were...
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November 11, 2015 The American workplace has changed. For the first time ever, five generations of Americans are working together, and it ain’t smooth. The workplace has become far more complex...
View ArticleParenting
October 19, 2015 As the youngest of 14 children born to a clergyman in Devonshire, England, 19th century poet-philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge had some decided opinions about childrearing, as...
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October 5, 2015 Back to the Future was the most successful movie of 1985. The hero, Marty McFly, was an unimpressive teenager, full of adolescence angst. Then suddenly he was catapulted into the past,...
View ArticleWhat Now? – Pt. 4
September 21, 2015 Christian theologian and analytical philosopher William Lane Craig described the struggle of most gay people this way: “Many homosexuals testify how agonizing it is to find...
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There is a lot of misinformation regarding homosexuality. Most commonly, that 10% of American’s are gay. The real number, according to the National Health and Social Life Survey is “2.8% of the male,...
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In my last article I discussed the impact of the Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage. One of the most obvious effects was to prove that those of us who support the historical and...
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I remember where I was the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. It was a defining moment for my generation. I suspect that the Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage will be as...
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What does the future hold? My response is somewhat enigmatic: I believe that the future is going to be exactly like the past, but different. What do I mean? We live in such a rapidly changing world,...
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What exactly did Jesus mean when he said, “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven..." (Matthew 16:13-19)? Some misread this statement, concluding that the keys of the kingdom were Peter or...
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One of the many things the Bible predicts about the “End Times” is that it will be “terrible.” But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days (2 Timothy 3:1). The original word...
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I often hear people dismiss disagreements by saying, “It’s just a matter of semantics.” What that statement reveals is that this person doesn’t understand what the word semantics means. Semantics is...
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When I first moved to Spokane, a friendly businessman gave me the following summary of the local culture: “They don’t like new, big, or change. But they will overlook all of these if they can get it...
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As I age, I have noticed something. Not only is my body becoming less flexible; so is my mind. On the one hand, it makes me more emotionally stable. But on the other, I have become less daring and...
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It is commonly assumed among Christians that God is never involved or responsible for the “bad things” that happen in life. What makes this surprising is that the Bible clearly and repeatedly warns us...
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For years I was puzzled as to how someone became an atheist, until I stumbled across a book written by Dr. Paul Vick, a psychologist who had spent much of his former life as an atheist. Through a...
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