Sexual Sins

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…

Angry Jesus

Last week we talked about “gentle Jesus,” who treated sinners with compassion and kindness. In the synoptic Gospels, we find another story that is noteworthy because of Jesus’ compassion—the story of a man with a withered hand, probably atrophied as a result of some type of paralysis.[1] Jesus encounters the Read more…