Wipe That Smile Off Your Face!

There’s a silly, but dangerous, little document making the rounds threatening faithful and sound brethren everywhere. Called, “Ten Commandments of Human Relations,” the second commandment is especially pernicious. It reads, “Smile at people. It takes 72 muscles to frown…only 14 [...]

Preacher or Preachers?

An online article in The Christian Chronicle about churches with two or more preachers set me to thinking. I know a little about this because I have worked in places where I was the only preacher and on the mission field when I was one of several.
Churches that have more [...]

Outposts of the Gospel

It is imperative that, in every community, the ekklesia comes to see itself as an “outpost of the gospel.” Wherever we reside in New York or Nuevo Laredo, we live on the frontier of the kingdom. It is the border between light and darkness. It is the border [...]

Drawn by Deficiency

The story is told of a golfer who was having a bad day on the course. At the last hole, he had had it. His language was fierce. He threw his clubs in the water and screamed, “That does it, I’m going to quit!” His surprised caddie asked, “Are [...]

Thanks Chris!

Christopher Hitchens is an atheist. He obviously doesn’t like religion and has written a book about it entitled God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. I’ve not read the book but I have good intentions. I’m not shocked when an avowed atheist makes derogatory remarks about believers. But [...]

The Real Problem

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.  Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” —  Mahatma Gandhi 

Well, that’s the real problem, isn’t it?  Today’s version of Christianity bears little resemblance to the genuine article.  (more…)

BROKEN

        My family and nearly every other family I know has been touched by addiction to drugs (legal and illegal) and/or alcohol.  That’s one reason my wife and I were drawn to a book I want to recommend to everyone: Broken, by William Cope Moyers.  It is published in the U.S. by Viking and, for [...]

Goodbye Ugly Betty

    My ignorance regarding television is boundless.  Name a show and I probably can’t tell you what network it is on.  My wife knows all that so I don’t have to concern myself with such petty details. 
What I do know is that I used to like the show, “Ugly Betty.”  When the show won [...]