Pastor Jones was sitting in his office, one Monday morning, trying to get over the previous weekend. Two services in the morning and one in the evening, with guests for lunch really takes it out of a guy. At about half past ten, Pastor Jones’ secretary buzzed him with a message that George wanted to […]
Accepting Jesus Into Your Heart
“It is my opinion that tens of thousands of people, if not millions, have been brought into some kind of religious experience by “accepting” Christ, and they have not been saved. If your Christian conversion did not reverse the direction of your life, if it did not transform it then you are not converted at […]
Pleasing God
Therefore, we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him (2 Cor. 5:9). What does it mean to please God? Well the first thing that springs to mind is that we might keep the commandments of God. But would keeping the commandments please God? In Mark 10 Jesus came […]
You Want That Yucky Old Thing Back?
Hi Charlie, I’m sorry to be getting back to you so late. A lot of people think God is twisted and/or drunk. But as I mentioned in my last post, knowing that there’s something wrong proves that something can be wrong. If the alternative to a good God ruling the universe were true, we couldn’t/wouldn’t […]
Eileen’s Testimony
Throughout the last 21 years that I’ve been a pastor’s wife, people have asked me how Mike and I met. It is a fairy-tale story that didn’t begin until I was thirty. And, like most fairy-tale stories, there are bad parts and good parts woven together, and my story is no different. Here’s how it […]
Wounds Rather Than Heals
There is a way of using theology and theological arguments that wounds rather than heals. This is not the fault of theology and theological arguments; it is the fault of the “miserable comforter” who fastens on an inappropriate fragment of truth, or whose timing is off, or whose attitude is condescending, or whose application is […]
With Gratitude and Thanksgiving
Hi Georgina, There are times when the various Scripture passages can sound hollow and without meaning—even trite. This is often because we are so familiar with them that we’ve forgotten why we memorized them in the first place or perhaps because we believe the world; and the world sucks the life out of the truths […]
“Doing” Evangelism
Dear Pastor Lawyer, In May, our church began having two services on Sunday mornings. The first service is geared to Christians and the second service is more oriented to non-Christians. We were wondering what you think about the best way for a church to “do evangelism”. Thanks for the help. John & Constance Dear […]
sets people free
It is interesting that when the apostle Paul was addressing the Jews and God fearers in Antioch he didn’t need to tell them what they were being saved from. He did not need to convince them of their bondage to their sin or that they were sinners. He just assumed they knew it and said, […]