Think for a moment about a movie that made you scared. What movie would it be? What is the scariest movie you have ever seen? The Strangers? The Exorcist? The Omen? The Shining? Psycho? What makes you scared of a movie? Is that different for everyone? There are some threads that stimulate fear in most…
From the lesson series, Fingerprints of Faith | Spiritual Skeptics, March 2010 The United States is seen around the world to be a religious nation, filled primarily with Christians. Actually the country bursts at the seams with skeptics. Statistics reveal a little more than one out of ten Americans (11 percent) are either atheist (9…
Trust: A Different Reason to Obey. From the lesson series, Different: The Call of the Sermon on the Mount to be Different Than the World (Matthew 5 – 7) According to George Barna, Christians believe their churches are doing well when it comes to discipleship. 52% of those who have attended church in…
It really was just a matter of time. People often make a correlation between pain and punishment. Yesterday I received an email posing a question related to the coronavirus. Today I received a related question. The first article addressed the issue, “Is the coronavirus a punishment found in the ‘seven seals’ mentioned in Revelation?” Today’s…
The rat-at-tats sound more ominous each time the footage is replayed on television. The sound makes pain flood the soul. A lone gunman opened fire into a crowd gathered for a country music concert in Las Vegas late at night on Sunday October 1st. Since that time authorities have confirmed 59 deaths and over 500…
If you pick up a Bible study or commentary on the important teachings of the book of 1 Corinthians, or if you listen to a sermon series studying through the book, you are most likely to hear that the church in Corinth was a problem church – a church that wasn’t very grounded in the…
This is my final Christmas music post for 2019. We have looked at the secular and religious music of the season. Music is a special part of our lives. It stirs our memories. It rousts our spirits. It brings us together. It challenges our personalities. My top ten list of carols didn’t even have room…
Listen. Do you mind if I share a pet peeve? Because I had a day off, I had the chance to listen to the sermons of six different preachers today. Each of them holds preaching ministry positions and their sermons are broadcast on radio waves across the country; some around the world. Several of them…
Today’s post is the second in our series featuring favorite Christmas songs. (For the first post in this series, click here.) Today we are looking at secular holiday songs that are a little less than classic, but that hold a special place in making the season special for me. My top-ten list grew to an…