Thrill and Responsible

It is always interesting to me how once I see something, I seem to see it everywhere. In this case, I see guys riding motorcycles without helmets. It seems to me that riding on a motorcycle without a helmet is a glorious thing. This is true, not necessarily because I could feel the wind rushing […]

Engaging Abused Women

I would like to commend this podcast to you to listen to. It is a conversation between Dale Johnson (Executive Director of ACBC) and Pam Gannon (an ACBC counselor in Bozeman, MT). It is one of those rare interviews, now-a-days, that is genuinely Biblical in response to how to minister to a woman who has gone through […]

Pill Poppin’ Christians

By Ben Zornes Orcs and Elves Aged women are given explicit Apostolic instruction to be “not given to much wine (Tit. 2:3).” A deacon’s (and probably elder’s) wife is, among other things, to be sober, νηφαλέους (1 Tim. 3:11). The entire congregation is commanded to not be drunk with wine, but filled with the Spirit […]

Help! I’m A Young Pastor

The following is some advice I gave a young pastor after visiting with him for only a week. The church as around 300 attendees. They have several active elders and deacons. As I mention below they are all very well educated and leaders in their respective fields. In addition, there are at least two retired […]

From whence the letters come

I thought I would post something about where the letters I respond to come from. Some of them come from actual people asking actual questions. I change the names and some of the particulars so that no one will know the actual person being responded to. I post them because I think the questions are […]

One Sin Does Not Condemn A Person To Hell

I was recently asked a number of questions about comments that were made to an article about a pastor in the SBC pastor who had preached a sermon in response to his son’s revealing that he was gay. You can find the article here. My responses to the comments may have very little to do with […]

God’s Shadow of Protection — Psalm 91

By Lisa Leidenfrost “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, ‘He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.’” (Psalm 91:1-2) This is a Psalm about why we can trust in the […]