I had a good talk with my brother Jeff this morning. It had been a while since we talked. Why? Well simply I have been busy but even more the reason was because I was really exhausted. Exhausted from work, school, family activities, active children, even exhausted emotionally. As I take inventory of my time and even the time of us Westerners we are so busy....

I will tell you last night was the first time I have conversed with God with any real meaning and expectation to hear from Him in some time. I have not read a page of the bible in a few months, I have not sacrificed any of myself in a few months and I honestly struggled with the fact of being a Christian. Why? I don’t know. There were a combination of events...

  Over the past few months I have had a lot of time to think about stuff. I actually have thought about a lot of stuff come to think about. One of those things is “life” and what it means. You see void of any spiritual aspirations, life is just life. I started to ask to myself without God what is life and what value does life have. I have come to a...

1. If I believed in the resurrection, the American dream would be appalling. 2. If I believed in the resurrection I would support missions wrecklessly. 3. If I believed in the resurrection I wouldn’t be embarrassed about Jesus. 4. If I believed in the resurrection I would forgive as I have been forgiven. 5. If I believed in the resurrection my image would be...

Often times I am overwhelmed by the needs I see and hear about. What makes matters worst today is the fact that technology puts information that you couldn’t even think about at your fingertips and only second to the speed of light. You hear about Haiti, Australia, earthquakes in China, earthquakes in Pakistan, flooding in China, droughts in different parts of...

Imputation, Justification, Propitiation, all of those are transactional in their definition. I want to write about something but don’t know how to fully explain it without sounding like a heretic. But I am going to try and let me know what you think okay? Okay! Because of the protestant reformation, our Gospel has become very transactional very abstract....