Christ’s mission wasn’t to win an argument; his mission was to create a pathway for humanity to be redeemed! Winning an argument can amount to very little and is often just two egos battling. You can win an argument and lose the person you were trying to reach. There are too many people trying to win arguments instead of winning people. This needs to stop.
Change is difficult. Like cement, the older we get the more set in our ways we become. Serving as a pastor in a congregation that has a substantial older demographic comes with its challenges. Most of my congregants are over…
There is a burger shop by my house that I use to love visiting. Each time I would order the same burger, The Colorado. It was filled with delicious peppers and cheese unique to Colorado. Over the years the company…
Plagues in the 2nd and 3rd century wiped out around 5 million people in the Roman Empire. (It was likely some form of smallpox.) Christians were among the few who cared for the sick. Nobles and others fled the cities…
Are you willing to be politically outrageous? Jesus’ actions in Jerusalem when he fashioned a whip because the misuse of the temple as a market (See John 2:13-25) made me wonder if I am willing to be seen as outrageous…
People are typically led to pray not when everything is going well, but in a place of need. However, here lies the problem for many of us: We can lose our focus on God when life is going according to…
We live in a world that puts a high value on creativity and self-expression. Sociologists even have a term for this mentality, expressive individualism. This is the tendency to see life as something that we each individually need to realize…
(Warning: this article contains a few spoilers for those who haven’t yet seen the movie!) Deadpool, a.k.a. Wade Wilson, is that lovably ego-driven superhero who is not really a hero, except when he’s out for revenge. Yet Deadpool is also…
C.S. Lewis wrote about his early discovery of joy in his book Surprised by Joy. The experience of joy first came to him when reading fantasy stories and Norse mythology. Those tales touched something deep and majestic that brought a…
Who was Jesus really? Some consider him divine, others a good moral teacher, and some say he never existed. While the most liberal of historical scholars would agree that Jesus was a real person who died by Roman crucifixion, his…