This week has been a real guilt-trip.
It all started with 100 Huntley Street and watching the amazing acts of service and giving that people are doing. One man, for instance, deserted by his mother on a street corner at age twelve, now has a worldwide ministry serving thousands upon thousands of [...]
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As the next new trend sweeps through Christianity, with its gurus, books, conferences and marketing machine, I feel heartsick.
For two reasons: first, it’s “here we go again,” another panacea, another great solution to church attendance going down, another exciting novelty that will only last until the next new exciting trend comes along. [...]
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When Jesus said (in good old King James language) in John 5:30 that “I can of mine own self do nothing,” I always thought he was referring to his helplessness, or admitting he didn’t have the strength or ability to fulfill God’s will on his own.
That isn’t what Jesus was saying, though. In [...]
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I was watching an advice program on sex, and it was tragic seeing what happens with couples. A wife rations her husband’s quota of sex each week; a husband loses interest if his wife doesn’t initiate sex, they blame each other, and on and on it went.
As I watched, the problem [...]
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I’m amazed at people who don’t have time to eat. How can anyone miss out on eating?! But young people, especially, have so much going on, so many pressures, friends in need, late night homework and emotional crises of their own, that they can’t find time to eat – or don’t even feel [...]
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If I kept a list of all the things people ask me to pray for, I’d have several binders full by now, and it would take me hours every day to pray for them all.
But people keep loading more prayer requests on me! “Please remember us in your prayers” is the [...]
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I’ve been asked several times recently if I think we’re in the end-time, meaning God’s about to wrap things up because the world’s in an irreversible nosedive into oblivion. I can’t help thinking they may have a point, because if there’s a war over resources, or a world war over anything, what would [...]
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I’m flipping through a newspaper in the local library, when one of the library staff asks me to take the newspaper and sit at a table because, she said, turning the pages really bothered her.
It was a Monty Python moment. I’m in a library with a member of staff who doesn’t [...]
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A man phoned me in response to one of my articles in the local newspaper with the following statement: “For the next hour,” he said, “you are going to listen to me as I show you why I do not like your God, and why I do not believe in the God of [...]
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Is the Bible really God’s word? Yes, Jesus says: “scripture cannot be broken (John 10:35).” Yes, says Paul: “All scripture is inspired by God (2 Timothy 3:16).” No doubt in their minds, is there? The Bible is God’s inspired and infallible word.
But how do you prove it?
That’s easy; the [...]
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