Hello friends, fans, and readers. How does someone who would prefer to spend his days with his nose buried in books transform himself into a writer—indeed a writer using modern technology and social media? Slowly. And painfully. But the transformation…
A friend recently asked me to review a book by NT Wright called Surprised by Hope. In a nutshell, Mr. Wright starts his argument with the Bible’s teaching on the bodily resurrection and the future glorious kingdom, adds a little…
Bitterness is like a tea kettle on the stove. If you keep heating it up, it will boil. But if you take it off of the burner, it will cool down. This is the only way to get victory over…
Many Christians seem to be of the opinion that the Christian life boils down to clean living. They feel that if they are avoiding gross sin, then they are doing all that is required to be a faithful disciple. This…
Many times over the years I have had people tell me that they just can’t do the serious Christian thing because if they did, they wouldn’t be true to self. This perspective on their life is both mistaken and tragic.…
Many believers live in a minor but significant distrust of God. They hang on to their money, their possessions, and their time for themselves like a child refusing to share his candy. They fear, with fears they hardly dare admit…
In the summer of 1986, I and several others made an attempt on Granite Peak in Montana via the Granite Creek drainage. To get to the mountain on this route you face three miles of boulder field that ranges from…
When I was a babe in the Lord, twenty years old and fresh out of the Army, I went to church camp for the first time in my life. I was young in the faith, abounding in zeal and overflowing…
The title is actually a misnomer for NT Greek has no indefinite article. But the eye-catching title draws attention to an important subject—how NT Greek handles the expression of indefiniteness. Many assume that the fact that NT Greek has no…
In the fall of 1981, I hitchhiked home from Tacoma, Washington to Langdon, North Dakota on a surprise visit to my family. A combination of rides took me to Grafton, so I had to hitchhike west on Hwy 17 and…