Data, research, and statistics are great. Especially when they show what many of us have known about porn for a long time. But people don’t always listen to preachers. Or care about what something does to their heart, their soul, and their relationships. But they’ll listen to the news. And to data, research, and statistics. […]
Don’t Waste Your Scars, Turn Them Into Trophies of Grace
All too often we waste our scars. We endure pain and we inflict pain. We are scarred.
Validation from Blog Stats, Twitter followers & Big Publishers
Most of you know by now I wrote a book on sexual purity this past summer during my sabbatical. Well, I guess it can’t be called a “book” technically, but it is a very long Microsoft Word document that I hope gets turned into a book someday. I was really blessed to have an editor […]
How Should Christians Respond to Boy Scouts Policy on Gays?
The Boy Scouts of America made the news recently for their proposal to allow gay scouts, but to continue banning gay leaders. Up to this point, gay scouts have been banned. You can read the NBC News article on it here.
The Tension
between the Kingdom of God being here, but not yet fully here of being a sinner and a saint of going through trials, knowing the day without trials is not yet here knowing God has power over my trials and could stop them
On Jackie Robinson Day, is racism still alive and well?
Growing up middle class and white, in a middle class and white town in suburban Ohio, I always understood racism to be dead. Racism was something I learned about in history class. The Klu Klux Klan. The “N” word. Slavery. The Civil War. Some guy name Martin Luther King and a lady named Rosa Parks. […]