Have You Embraced Obscurity?

Have You Embraced Obscurity?

A COUPLE OF YEARS BACK I BOUGHT A LITTLE BOOK TITLED, Embracing Obscurity. The subtitle sums it up. Becoming Nothing In Light of God’s Everything. The book is well written. To be consistent with his premise the author’s name is “Anonymous.”...
Have You Embraced Obscurity?

A Surpising Difference Between Heaven and Hell

WHAT MUST I DO TO GET INTO HEAVEN? That is the most important question one could ask. In his book Redemptive Reversals, Theologian G. K. Beale suggests that most people think the answer is good deeds.  I need to be good. When God weighs my life on the scales of divine...
Have You Embraced Obscurity?

How To Pray For Our Country

I WAS ASKED TO LEAD THE PASTORAL PRAYER at the Path of Life fundraising banquet last night. I led us in a prayer of contrition for the sins of our nation. Although most joining me in prayer had not committed the sins we confessed, we confessed them in the first person...
Do You Have The Root Of Spiritual Fruit?

Do You Have The Root Of Spiritual Fruit?

ONE OF MY FAVORITE TEXTS in Paul’s letters is in Colossians 2:6-7.  “Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.” Paul...