Christian Living
What Does The Bible Say
Today I attended a meeting of local pastors who were given a briefing concerning the belief that in 2012 the Washington State Legislature will attempt to pass legislation to allow same-sex couples to be married under Washington State law. It was a good meeting and I was very impressed with the guys who were conducting [...]
At The Door Knocking
I listened last night to a pastor that I like very much. He is on the radio and television every day and has written several bestselling books. He was in tears as he described, “The Luke Warm Church” that is so popular today. This pastor began to talk about the postmodern church where the subject [...]
The Haircut
I needed a haircut so this past week I went to the place where I normally get one. As usual I went to sit in the chair, which was facing away from the mirror, and removed my glasses. The person, who was going to cut my hair, turned the chair around towards the mirror and [...]
Yes and No Theology
Ben Patterson declares, “We must practice the discipline of saying both yes and no, it is hard, it’s not fun, and it doesn’t usually preach to packed houses. But believers in every age have had to learn it or lose the faith.” ((The Art & Craft of Biblical Preaching pg. 254-255) Patterson uses an example [...]
Spiritual Conditioning
Yesterday afternoon I was looking out our kitchen window when the Lord began to squeeze my heart with a prophetic vision. This is how God speaks to me through pictures and thoughts more than anything else. It has been a long time since I have felt my heart squeezed this hard. God brought to me pictures [...]
Trust
We are being told that for the postmodern generation one of the areas they struggle with is truth. This generation has been raised on television and movies; where often reality and fiction come across as fuzzy. The age before postmodernism was the modern age and the modern age promised to cure all the problems of [...]
We Need Discipleship; Desperately
The young man was an intercity youth who found himself looking for acceptance and connection to anything. He ran with the wrong group of young people and at times was in trouble with the law. He had never known his father and his mother worked several jobs to take care of the family. In the [...]
