Tis the Season for Warfare
You must remember—the world we live in is a world at war. Why is that so hard to accept? And even if we do come to accept it—and few people do—why is it so hard to hang on to that reality every day? What is Read More
Christian Life
When God Warns
They tell us that we preachers should never do any negative preaching, that we should preach only on positive topics. I’d have to throw away a good portion of my New Testament if I left out the negatives. The Bible is double-barreled all the way Read More
The Moral Crisis
I met with the senior pastor of a church of 1,000 here in AZ for lunch last week. He told me that at their recent men’s retreat, 80% of the men admitted to struggling with pornography. When he asked how many would take a specific Read More
Lamp Posts on The Road to Recovery from Porn Addiction
The Lamp Posts below can provide light for all of the Christian life. Let’s jump right in. Freedom and healing are impossible in isolation. Many have tried the “do it yourself” approach to avoid sharing their weaknesses and failures with others, including myself. You must Read More
The August Adventure
Sunday July 31, Bekah and I left in the morning to drive to Las Vegas. The morning began for me with a 3:00AM dose of warfare. There would more of those as the month progressed. About 20 miles outside of Las Vegas, we ran into Read More
You Are a Game-Changer
After last week’s newsletter on equipping you to be a spiritual warrior, I got hit with one of those late-night battles I described in the article. Our spiritual adversary is quite happy to keep us feeding on milk and cookies Sunday morning at church, but Read More
Warfare in Las Vegas
Last Thursday and Friday, Bekah and I were in Las Vegas, where I hosted two live shows of Blazing Grace radio. KKVV’s radio studio is located in the middle of the sexually charged hot zone of the city. 5 strip clubs, an erotica museum, sex Read More
Extravagant Love
Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. 1 John 3:18 Once a year, every February, I take my three daughters out to a fancy restaurant for dinner. We get dressed up. They spend time planning what Read More
Surviving and Thriving in Hard Times
We live in tough times. Disease, threats of war, exploding crime and violence, rampaging evil, rifts in society, and a church that’s reeling is the new norm. While many yearn for “getting back to normal,” none of this is going away on its own. Satan Read More
8 Prayer Groups
If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. My own soul’s conviction is that prayer is the grandest power in the entire universe, that it has more omnipotent Read More
Karl Barth, Theology, and Adultery
It is possible to know all about doctrine and yet not know Jesus. The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch with Jesus. Why was Mary weeping? Doctrine was no more to Mary than the grass under her feet. Any Pharisee Read More
The Blank Slate
Most young men don’t grow up with a close relationship with their dad. I’ve shared of the time I spoke at a men’s conference at a church and asked those who had a close relationship with their dad growing up to raise their hands… not Read More