Category Archives: General

Nietzsche said don’t stare too long into the abyss or you’ll find the abyss looking back at you.  Earlier I used this in reference to evil; here I use it of the things of God.

“Don’t be a hater” is a popular expression among those current in pop culture’s lingua franca.

I just finished reading The Quest for Holiness for the fourth time. I probably wouldn’t have ever read it once except that Doctor David Scaer wrote the foreword to the 1995 edition.  Each time I read it I like it; … Continue reading →

Our Statement of Confession, written by me and adopted by you, is really a copying of work done by others. This was a mistake. The virtue of our statement is that it is the only one I know of that … Continue reading →

One dominos causes the other domino to fall because of the law of gravity.  The law of God is a powerful force, but it can be overwhelmed by the law of the land.

“’Skin for skin!’ Satan replied. ‘A man will give all he has for his own life’” (Job 2:4).  That seems true of me but not of the celebrated con man Charles Ponzi.

Any pastor knows that one of the hardest things to deal with is guilt.  Real guilt can be the couch wetting, bone wasting kind of Psalms 6 and 32.  Imagined guilt is hard to cleanse even with the very real … Continue reading →

It could be because of where I’ve been pastoring, but I don’t think so. It’s only been in the last 7-10 years that I have encountered people who have absolutely no religious background.  They don’t know Gideon’s fleecing has nothing … Continue reading →

This of course is from Hamlet.  The one I’m thinking from is also from England, and is no lady, but then he isn’t a man either.  Or at least not what God intended man to be.  Likewise, when I don’t … Continue reading →

In 1989 tennis player Michael Chang won the French Open.  The crowd cheered the Chinese-American player until….