I live in a poor neighborhood. A lot of people smoke marijuana in my neighborhood. By “a lot” I mean I can smell it pretty much whenever I’m out for a walk, and I often see it being smoked openly at the park where I play basketball. Smoked, rolled, dealt, etc. Everyone I know who […]
5 Reasons NOT to Talk about Porn in Church (Sarcasm Alert)
Check out my most recent article on the Covenant Eyes blog, 5 Reasons NOT to Talk about Porn in Church (Sarcasm Alert). Share that link, not this atacrossroads.net one.
Book Coming January 19th, 2018: Beyond the Battle – A man’s guide to his identity in Christ in an oversexualized world
This is the landing page for my upcoming book Beyond the Battle: A man’s guide to his identity in Christ in an oversexualized world. The book will be available in January 2018, exact date TBD. Books will sell on Amazon for $14.99 each or you can purchase in bulk from this page you are currently […]
Let’s Start a Religion
INSTRUCTIONS: Make up an imaginary person. This person could be truly imagined, like the Tooth Fairy, or you can pick someone who has died and make up imaginary things about their life, like a tall tale. Now, you need to write down these imaginary stories. You write down that this imaginary person rose from the […]
Could 6 different people coming back to life from the dead in the New Testament be fabricated?
Easter Sunday is coming, which has a lot of people thinking about resurrection from the dead. Two Sundays ago, I preached on how Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead after he had been dead (and smelly) for 4 days (John 11). This was the straw that broke the camel’s back for the religious leaders to […]
So the pastor asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”
The Bible is a thick book. Always has been. In the first century, an expert in the Old Testament Scriptures asked Jesus to summarize all of the commands in the Bible into the greatest commandment, to slim down that thick book into something easy to remember. Jesus tells him the greatest commandment is to love […]