The Notebook

When looking at the story of “The Prodigal” it is easy to see that Jesus believes that sinners matter. Now the tax collectors and “sinners” were all gathering around to hear him. But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “This man welcomes sinners and eats...

AP Just a short post to rant about Hillary. Did you see her at Coretta Scott King’s funeral wearing slacks? How tacky and disrespectful for a lady who is a U.S. Senator and the wife of a former President to be dressed like that at such a solemn occassion. She was in stark contrast to […...

The only way. Isn’t that narrow minded, bigoted, exclusive, intolerant? Maybe a way to heaven but the way? It sounds so judgmental. If you’re not thinking this way your friends are. Your neighbors are. Skeptics are. Those on the outside of Christianity looking in are. In our world that we live i...

Fellow Pastors, Church Leaders, and honored lay people: Each time I stand to speak I am humbled by the opportunity that God has given to me to be His spokesman of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I am honored that God would seek out and use me to be a part of the greatest plan […]...

Emerging Church leader Brian McLaren has ruffled the feathers of the established evangelical community again including mine, which is hard to do. It’s starting to become more and more common that McLaren’s views of the traditional evangelical church, (what I term the Submerging Church) s...

History over the past two thousand years has painted many pictures of what Jesus looked liked and who he was. Many theologians and skeptics throughout the centuries have each had their idea of Jesus and the truth of the matter is, not a single one of them has done Jesus justice.  As I look back...

It seems like the issue of Intelligent Design is geting major attention around the country as lawsuits are being filed in several states to stop the teaching of ID in schools systems. Those who back ID believe that ID should have an equal stage with the teaching of the theory of evolution. The probl...

If you were to look at my personal profile on this site you would see that one of my hobbies is trying to get my basement finished. It has been a three and a half year project, with all the labor being done by myslef and my wife Julie. When we bought our home our […]...

Happy New Year!!!  Sorry that I am a day late and possibly a dollar short as the old saying goes. Many of us have made the annual resolutions that will be broken before we see the next President’s Day most surely.  None for me this year. Yes, I do need to lose weight and be […...

If you haven’t gotten the email forward from American Family Association asking you to send a letter to NBC to share your thoughts on the their upcoming new television series, consider yourself lucky.  I am not railing against the AFA, as they do great work in keeping network and movie ex...