Category Archives: Faith and Politics

Question for You ~ Part 2, “Who Told You … ?”

As our nation struggles with some of the most consequential political questions of our lifetime, a few questions that God asked Adam and Eve have emerged once again at a crucial point in our history, and they have 

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Question for You ~ Part 1, “Where Are You?”

In the midst of one of those roundtable group discussions about some topic I don’t really recall, someone took advantage of a momentary pause to interject this simple comment, “Question for you ….” The three words were enough to 

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No Magic “8-Ball” Needed, 2.0

You’ll never guess what I saw on TV earlier this week! I turned on the news, a courageous thing to do, if I do say so myself, and I was confronted with 

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Turning Up the Volume One More Time

I wrote an article years ago about the need to increase the volume on our attempts to share the message Jesus Christ has sent us to deliver to this lost, broken, chaotic, and violent world. With crisis situations 

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Time to Stop “Raising Hell”

Every culture has words and phrases called “euphemisms”. They communicate messages but they’re not intended to be 

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“Sons of Issachar” ~ Needed Now More than Ever

The group of guys nearby may have been trying to see who could come up with the most extravagant “understatement”.  I can’t say for sure, but if it was a contest, my money would have been on the bearded guy … Continue reading

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