From Paris With Love

From Paris With Love

How do we respond to the attacks we have seen in Paris? Or Lebanon? Israel? Nigeria? Seemingly all over the place. Radical Islam has brainwashed humans into doing very non-human things. It is beyond me how a person, a living, breathing human, could stare down the...
Love

Love

I have seen so much stuff lately online, from moral debates to politics to gay choir directors and Hillsong to the Supreme Court ruling on marriage. With everything we see going on in the world around us, there may be some evidence that Jesus just might be on his way...
50 Shades of Gray

50 Shades of Gray

This will most likely be my shortest post ever, mainly because there’s not much to be said about this phenomenon of 50 Shades of Gray. The way I feel about it, and the way I believe God feels about it, is pretty black and white. So, rather than droning on about...
Five Reasons People Don’t Leave the Church

Five Reasons People Don’t Leave the Church

I’ve seen a lot of posts lately about why people are leaving the church. Everyone seems to have suggestions as to why, and many of them I have read have been pretty good. I do find it sad that people leave the church. As Christians, we agree that Christianity is not a...
Growing Up

Growing Up

For a while we have seen a trend with adults that is pretty disturbing. We see it with my generation (GenX) and the GenY or Millenial generation. It is even pretty evident in the Baby Boomer population as well. People aren’t growing up. Let me explain. I follow...
Three (Bad) Excuses for Skipping Church

Three (Bad) Excuses for Skipping Church

I’ve been in ministry now for over 15 years and the majority of that has been in youth ministry. You’ll see a lot of trends come and go over 15 years, especially with teenagers. Each generation gets a new fancy name, like GenX, Millennials, and now, GenZ,...