Posts with the category “current-issues”

As I consider the world in which my children are being raised, one of the greatest threats they will ever face in today’s Western culture is the onslaught of pornographic images.  Read More

This past summer, my church family blessed my family with a 10-week sabbatical. This means that I had zero pastoral responsibilities for over two months. I could write a monograph about the experiences we had and the lessons we learned, but I’ll table that for another time. Here, I simply want to highlight “twelve habits of rest” that we gleaned during the sabbatical.  Read More

But what about when the life of a woman is legitimately at stake in her pregnancy? What choice does a follower of Jesus have when a pregnancy threatens the life of the mother?  Read More

It wasn’t until I began to see just how far the American political landscape had trespassed their political boundaries (venturing into the ecclesiastical pulpit and hijacking biblical morality for their own political platforms) that I began to sense a growing need for faithful Christians to “get political” – with their pastors leading the way. Let me explain...  Read More

The world has become skillful when it comes to the game of hiding in the shadows - and so have we.  Read More

As an adult, I have watched many of my close friends walk away from the Christian faith they once professed. The cultural hashtag for this spiritual trajectory is “deconstruction”.  Read More