The New Testament talks a lot about love. We are told to love God,[1] love one another,[2] love our neighbor,[3] and even love our enemies.[4] In 2011, a wonderful CD was published entitled, “Music Inspired by The Story.” One of the most beautiful songs on that album is “How Read more…
Parables are stories that teach a lesson. Jesus used parables a lot. But seldom did he explain the meaning of his parables, and when he did it was only to his disciples, not to the general public. Why did he so often use parables? I believe there were several reasons. Read more…
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) issued ninety disaster and emergency declarations in 2022, and 114 in 2023.[1] So far in 2024, FEMA has issued 100 such declarations—and we still have four-and-a-half months to go, including much of the hurricane season. Fifty-eight of these emergency declarations have been for severe Read more…
The following is an excerpt from Chapter 9 of my book, Beyond Shallow Faith (copyright 2018), entitled “Let’s Talk About Sex”: I have long wondered why many Christians seem to consider sexual offenses so different from sins such as greed, envy, strife, deceit, malice, gossip, slander, arrogance, boasting, disobedience to Read more…