The following is an article I edited for Jordan Quam. The Gosnell trial was also referenced several times Monday evening, April 29th at Lakes Area Pregnancy Support Center’s fundraising banquet here in the Brainerd Lakes area. LAPS represents a proverbial Gideon’s torch in the battle against injustice framed by statute (Psalm 94:20). My next post will speak more to this concept and address another pressing issue of our day where the...

(Exposition for 4-14-13 sermon: Providential Super-Aboundings) Psalm 23 is so very familiar to most of us, there may be a tendency to marginalize the spectrum of glorious character defining our Shepherding Lord in this beloved song. It is important that the anthropomorphic language of this famous passage is not taken as license to paint a picture of God in our own image. Isaiah 40:11-18, as a companion text, may help retool our frame of...

John records the perspectival effect the ascension of Jesus Christ had on the disciple’s understanding of the events of Easter. With the unveiling of the plenary arc of the incarnate Christ’s revelatory exploits, they realized that they served the supernatural King of Kings! “His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him...

How do you preach the gospel at a Residential Contractor’s Continuing Education Class?  Until recently I’m not sure how I would have answered that question. But one possible avenue presented itself after my instructor commented on the direction of our society in relationship to state regulations that had about seventy general contractors like me thoroughly exasperated.     Two years ago I became a certified lead paint renovator....

THE BLACK EYED PEAS were on the radio and this is what I heard… The CLUB is a postmodern nirvana of self-indulgence! Who cares about heaven when you can frequent the cultural and spiritual epicenter of the abundant nightlife. In this temple of hedonism, the revised anthropic perversion of the scriptures reads: “My kingdom come, My will be done, on earth as it is in My delusional fantasy”…It’s Friday, girl, meet Me...