Hate the sin.  Love the sinner. I’m really starting to hate this saying.  It’s a phrase that has been used repeatedly by Christians over the years who are trying to figure out how to deal with people who live like hell.  For the most part, the Christian world has endorsed it, but I for [...]

Who’s in charge of your church?  Weird question, I know, but who’s really in charge?  Is it the pastor? The deacon board? The elders? The trustees? The rich old people? The church secretary?  The janitorial staff?  Who’s in charge?
You may think this question isn’t very important, but it’s actually one of the most important questions [...]

Americans aren’t losing their religion; their changing their religion…a lot. I’m not sure if you caught the article about this at cnn.com on Monday, but if you didn’t, let me share some of it with you.
More than half of American adults have changed religion in their lives, a huge new survey by the [...]

I’m studying Psalm 124 this week in preparation to preach on it this Sunday. One of the resources I’m using is a book called, Meditation in the Psalms by Erling C. Olsen written in 1939. As I was reading today, I came across an application he was making that spoke directly to the [...]

Was it just me, or did most of the people in attendance at President Obama’s speech on Tuesday night look like they’d rather have been ANYWHERE except for there? When the cameras panned the crowd, the congressional leaders looked like they were either asleep, mad, uninterested, or all of the above. And then [...]

I was running on the treadmill yesterday, pondering the new year. At the same time, I was listening to a song by a (now defunct) band called Church of Rhythm. They were a group of guys from WillowCreek Church in Chicago who put out two really good albums in the 1990’s. One [...]