Over the years, after listening to a great many men preach a great number of sermons, I have often asked myself “why did they bother?” Oh, they delineated their three points well enough, demonstrated adequately their knowledge of the pluperfect, and told their mandatory joke (and received the mandatory chuckle). But …

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Reforming the Ministry
Some Suggestions How to Get out of the Hole the Seminaries Dug for Us
It’s not my fault; really! I never wanted to be a pastor. Oh, I knew as soon as God regenerated my heart that being a Christian meant total commitment to Jesus as Lord. But …

Or, The Feminization of the American Clergy
Now I can already hear the PC crowd screaming for my head for saying this, but hey guys, someone, somewhere has to take a stand on this controversial issue and let the chips fall where they may; men and women are different. There, I said …

Frank from Dallas writes:
“Jesus stated that anyone who calls his brother a fool is guilty enough to be thrown into the fiery furnace (please forgive me if I am not getting the wording exactly straight). And yet, on occasion aren’t there some brothers out there that are…well fools-primarily because …

What about all that “binding and loosing” Jesus talks about in the Bible? Does He mean that Christians have the authority over the demonic?
There are two passages in particular that are most relevant to this question; Matthew 16:19 and 18:18. And as we say every week, the first step in interpretation is to …

A Lecture Delivered before Members of the Parliament of Zambia
The Problem: Romans 1:18ff
Where does liberty, wealth, security, safety and prosperity in a nation come from? Why do some nations prosper and others suffer poverty, disease and revolutions? Are such things mere accidents of history? Are they simply the result of certain social, cultural or environmental …

Every pastor has his share of difficulties in the ministry and it is sometimes awfully easy to wish that God had called us to some other kind of work. The constant nit picking, the job insecurity, the need to please ALL of the people with widely differing expectations, not to mention the …

I once watched a PBS debate on the topic of whether the Religious Right was a threat to American democracy. William F. Buckley, Pat Robertson and others pleaded that they were four square in favor of the flag, Mom’s apple pie and the American way. The Religious Right cried for “Principled Pluralism” …