Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” — Luke 23:34 Nothing hurts like hurting about hurts that make you hurt others. What a compound of pain that leads us to do unto others because something was done unto us and we’ve come all undone over it. So, [...]
(Note: Once again, little ones have gone unprotected, with small boys victimized by both the twisted and broken and the blind and indifferent. I was sexually- abused decades ago, at the age of 8. No victim ever forgets. For the hope of the Penn State small boys and other children being abused, often despite the [...]
One of the most discouraging aspects of battling a deeply-internalized sexual issue or other commanding presence of repetitive sin is that, even after you face it, fight it, and deprive it, something in that deep-internal goes right back to work to revive it. You choke it, pound it, bury it, surrender it and then, before [...]
For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. — I [...]
I carry the past that each day I chose One step to another . . . now everyone knows. It isn’t the past I would have wanted to claim But it is my past . . . it is mine just the same. I wonder sometimes about all of this Can there be no exchanging [...]
Don’t take credit for not falling into a sin that never tempted you in the first place. — Billy Graham The clash between pro-gay culture and the church is turning into a tragic comedy with about the air-time quality of a 20-year-old 2 a.m. TV-Land repeat. Snooze. Who loses? Truth loses. I think sometimes we [...]
If not for my public education, I would not be a pastor. There—how’s that for an opening line? I didn’t have time to get involved in the discussion, but in a recent post on church planting where the author recommended public schooling your (read: a church planter’s) children, a lively discussion ensued in the comment [...]
So, according to Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary, a journalist “is a : a person engaged in journalism; especially : a writer or editor for a news medium b : a writer who aims at a mass audience.” So, what exactly is a journalist, friends? Help me out. You see, I don’t really consider myself a journalist. [...]
