Chief Architect and Master Builder!

Lately in church, we’ve been talking a lot about Seasons of Silence. Those seasons when God’s voice is undiscernable and the resulting silence is deafening. Yesterday, I stated that while there are definetely seasons of silence in our lives, God is always actively at work to bring about His purpose. You see, He determines when [...]

All questions and no answers?

Here are a couple more questions for you to ponder as we approach the weekend.

What, in your opinion would be the starting point for a conversation about Jesus in today’s world, bearing in mind that we live in a world which largely considers Christianity irrelevant and Christians to be hypocritical and judgmental?
Who speaks for God [...]

A radical Islamic Taliban Roman…? (Part 3)

Over the last few posts we’ve been on a quest to answer the following questions:
Is it possible to have an authentic relationship with God without ever having heard of or knowing Jesus Christ?Are we saved by cognitive acceptance of certain dogmas or by reciting a rote prayer, or are we saved by the trajectory of [...]

A radical Islamic Taliban Roman…? (Part 2)

(To make better sense of today’s post you’d be well served to read part 1 first)

Clearly, when Peter was saved he became a ‘Christ-following Jew’ since there was no group or organized religion to belong to. By the same token when Cornelius was saved he became a ‘Christ-following gentile.’ This is key in recognizing that [...]

A radical Islamic Taliban Roman…? (Part 1)

Last week I posed a couple of questions that stimulated some discussion on whether or not one can experience an authentic relationship with God without having ever heard of, or knowing Jesus, and if indeed we are saved by believing the dogma of a church or the direction of our lives,by both or by neither. [...]

Of football and fast food!

We live in a culture that’s a litany of contradictions. We call our national pastime football, yet we play it with our hands. We talk about fast food, but the only thing that’s fast about it is the way it fastidiously sticks to your waistline and hips. We are a “get it now” culture, which [...]

Righteousness exalts a nation!

This is the end of day 20 of our 21-Day fast! Did anything earth shattering occur? Nothing that I’m aware of. Did I become infinitely more spiritual? That remains to be seen. So what did I get out of a 21-Day fast you might be asking? If the truth be told, I’m still watching it [...]

Rumbling, Stumbling, Bumbling…

I’ve been incredibly introspective today! There are all sorts of thoughts and ideas rolling around in my head (none of which I can disclose or discuss at the moment), and I’m reminded for the umpteenth time that I’ve chosen to accept a calling that is noble, fulfilling, complex, difficult and often very, very lonely. I’ve [...]

Purloining Pizza!

This is Day 6 of our 21-Day ‘Daniel Fast’ and I‘m really loving the fruit of this fast (I mean that both literally and figuratively)! We’ve determined (we began last year) that we will start out our year with prayer and fasting so as to set the tone for the rest of the year. We [...]

We the people… at least I think we are!

You haven’t read from me in a couple of days, but it is for good reason. I’ve been devouring copious amounts of material (written and video) regarding the troublesome issue of Barack Obama’s birth certificate. I watched (or rather listened on youtube) with distate, a purported phone call by a ‘bishop’ to Obama’s grandmother in [...]