Thoughts on the Bible, international relations, and self-defence: Biblically speaking, individuals have a right to self-defence. Nations do too. Generally speaking, there is a place…
What does it mean to seek the welfare of the city? The other day I discussed Jeremiah 29:7. The famous passage says this: “But seek…
Spiritual and political lessons to be learned from Israel in exile: I want to speak about how we should live with and pray for those…
God sustains us in the most difficult of times: Some 55 hours ago my wonderful wife was promoted to heavenly glory after much suffering and…
Some honest answers to questions about pain and suffering: Many atheists and non-believers use the excuse of pain and suffering to not want to believe…
We are celebrating the wrong thing: While June might be a celebration of all things homosexual in some quarters, we need to reconsider. We can…
We must not be surprised at the opposition we will all get as we seek to do God’s work: In Ezra 4: we read that…
It is the grace of God not to tell us everything: It is a blessing of God that he does not show us all that…
Christian conservatives are NOT welcome in the Liberal Party: If you know your Star Wars films, there is a scene in the 1977 movie where…
We are such a long way from where we should be, spiritually speaking: OK, this passage may not be so much encouraging as it is…
Being ‘true to yourself’ is often the worst thing you can do: Often music can capture the way a culture thinks and feels. It can…
This text certainly presents a number of very real challenges: There are two main problems or difficulties that one finds in this text. One is…
Taking God seriously while not taking ourselves too seriously: My title might seem to be an odd topic, but a recent post of mine on…
When megachurches are publicly critiqued, sometimes it is well-deserved: It is a general truth that if believers are fed a diet of faulty, questionable or…
God is doing far more than what we are aware of: Why do you do what you do? If you are a Christian you should…
Here are five moving stories of those who renounced their disdain of Christianity: The Roman leaders, the Jewish leaders, and Satan himself all thought that…
We can use some zeal and passion for the things of God: Christians are to mirror their Lord. If he loved righteousness and hated iniquity,…
We must not read Scripture cafeteria style: God did not give us just some books of the Bible, or parts of some books. He gave…
Do we need to remake God to keep the trans activists happy? Here is a truth you can take to the bank: every stupid and…
The evil Babylon world system will not last forever: In my morning devotions I again read this from Hebrews 13:14: “Here we have no lasting…