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Recently I have been meeting with some local pastors to explore whether they can benefit from what I have learned in fifty years in the Christian ministry. While seminary training is of benefit in learning about Christian doctrine, history, theology and worship it...
MAX LUCADO ON THE TEXAS CHURCH TRAGEDY
My dear friend from San Antonio, Max Lucado, has written the following devotional on his blog www.maxlucado.com. “Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul.” Matthew 10:28 Yet again, yet so soon, we struggle to make sense of bloodshed and violence....
WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THE SAINTS?
Hebrews 11 lists the heroes of the faith. On All Saints’ Sunday we remember the Communion of Saints who have preceded us. They were all commended for their faith. They are witnesses to us of God’s faithfulness. We look to them for encouragement and inspiration. The...
500TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION
Five hundred years ago on the eve of All Saints’ Day, October 31, 1517, Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk from the University of Wittenberg in Germany nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the college church proposing a discussion of the theology of indulgences. He...
THE GLORY AND HONOR OF MINISTRY
This coming Sunday Amelia Plantation Chapel is celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of my ordination to the Christian ministry. As these wonderful people, whom I have loved, prayed for and sought to serve for nearly eighteen years, seek to honor the work Antoinette...
A CLASSIC OF CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY
Recently I reread Dallas Willard’s THE SPIRIT OF THE DISCIPLINES which refers to the spiritual disciplines of the Christian Life: solitude, silence, fasting, frugality, chastity, secrecy, sacrifice, study, worship, celebration, service, prayer, fellowship, confession...
AN ACT OF PURE EVIL
In the light of the recent hurricanes and the massacre in Las Vegas, which President Trump described as an act of pure evil, I share with you a chapter from my book SURVIVING HURRICANES, which deals with the source of evil. Evil is a theological category and cannot be...
THE DEFEAT OF RATIONALISM
In Western civilization we are going through a period of rationalism where the prevailing educational, entertainment and media elites, who influence the culture, have rejected any allegiance to divine authority in faith and morals. Truth is what a person wants to...
CHRISTIANITY AND SLAVERY
Portrait of American orator, editor, author, abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass (1818 – 1895), 1850s. Engraving by A. H. Ritchie. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) During the summer the news was full of the controversy over the Confederacy and...
SURVIVING HURRICANES
On September 5, 2004 Hurricane Frances pummeled our home. We had decided to stay. I wrote about hurricanes as a metaphor for evil and other related themes in my book, SURVIVING HURRICANES. Last year we endured Hurricane Matthew when we lost three big trees in our yard...
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