In my last post, I wrote about the degrees of separation between the readers of the Bible and the people whose experiences of God found their way into the Scriptures.  I talked about the people who had the experiences and...

I’m intrigued by the game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.”  I’ve never played it, and I doubt that I’d be any good at it since I’m not a movie buff.  But the underlying assumption is interesting:  there are no more...

Welcome to a new blog!  This post is an introduction.  There are some previous posts as I was trying to get my thoughts together.  Check some of them out after reading this one. With this blog, I invite you to...

For many years I have asked myself why many Christians seem to believe that God will judge us by our orthodoxy, according to the beliefs which we hold in our minds. I know some of the history of the reformation...

A question to all preachers:  What is it about the sermon you are preparing to preach that can only be proclaimed by you? If you were to write out your sermon, word for word, could someone else read it and...

I have always felt like I don’t quite fit in.  If I am asked to choose one side of an issue, I often would like to choose both.  If I am asked to position myself on a spectrum, I generally...

A few years ago I heard a sermon explaining and defending and promoting the theological doctrine of grace, salvation by grace alone.  That sermon was anything but gracious.  The preacher’s point was that unless you believe that a person can...