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God wants to warn us, as difficult as the message is to contemplate: evil is indeed in our midst.

The western Christian world is constantly swirling with new programs for discipleship.

or what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? For what can a man give in return for his soul?” (Mark 8:26-37)

As one still committed to seeing the redemptive community carry out its creative design, what am I to suggest?...

I can remember when grandma and I first went to the mission field, to Colombia, South America, in 1974.

I am pondering whether America has crossed the line of disobedience to God’s invitation.

What happens when the great commandment (love your neighbor as yourself) overwhelms the great commission (make disciples of all nations).

On and on it goes, as the dangerous power of lying overwhelms us. Ultimately, lying subverts and corrupts human relationships.

If I close my eyes, even 46 years later, I can still hear the voice of the nurse over the many other noises in that clinic: your baby is dead!

We are at a moment in our political history when the word “malice” seems to aptly describe the environment.

Can God really keep up with all of this inflated financial need? Will He be there when I can no longer earn my way through life?

I want to reissue a blog about trust, followership, leadership and us, that I posted months back. It is never too often to be warned!

“Revelation 22:11, therefore, is a solemn warning that decision determines character, and character determines destiny.”

The goal of parenting is to teach content of God’s truth, what He wants in a life and why He wants those things.

We can learn to think in concert with God’s desires as we submit to the Spirit of God using the word of God to enlighten & bring direction.

Somewhere, early on, the mind needs to be set on fire by the Spirit to a new level of inquisitiveness.

It's important to think because we represent God. Or to say it more bluntly, what people all too often think about us, they think about God.

How do we learn to make daily decisions that will carry the weight of righteous?

In the most intimate moments of our lives we recognize that we are incomplete.

Of course, religious pretension is what we expect from people such as Pharisees. But....

The primary question is, what will America look like after?

So, this is our challenge: because we know the end of the story that began in Genesis.

One was chosen, one was not.

The longer we walk with the Spirit, the more often we recognize his voice to us in Scripture. His call is always to holiness.