The Gospel of Matthew is broken up into five discourses. The fourth discourse, which is found in eighteenth chapter, is often called the Discourse on…
I launched out like a sailor of the wind, a pneumanaut, not knowing where the thermals might set me down. No one was worried about…
No, this is not a post on fitness. I just could not resist the lovely picture. And besides, the image is not totally disconnected from…
Last week I participated in a symposium at Princeton Theological Seminary that sought to explore the issue of homosexuality in the Pentecostal church. The symposium potentially…
Probably most of us have heard of Jim Collins’ bestselling book from 2001, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t. It…
Posting devotions in Germany did not work out as planned, but today we are starting back with our daily posts. pro-gres-sion [pruh-gresh–uhn] noun 1. …
Emily recently wrote about Mary the mother of Jesus as a type of Christ carrier for all of us to model ourselves after. There are…
Parenting Ourselves and Our Relationships If you listen to enough testimonies you will discover that there are certain themes that pop up over and over…
I have gone to a lot of church services in my lifetime. And if I had to try to guess which passage from Scripture I…
I want to say this up front. I am challenged by what follows. In fact, I don’t really like today’s post. As I contemplate it…
There is a good bit of repetition in the gospels, stories that are told more than once. This is especially true in the Synoptic gospels…
I grew up in a Pentecostal tradition that places a fairly strong emphasis on the belief that speaking in tongues is the initial evidence of…
The first time that the word language shows up in Scripture is Genesis 10, where we are told that the sons and grandsons of Noah…
A Twitter friend of mine who pastors in Germany, Phillip Burton (@ktownpastor), sent out this tweet yesterday that got me thinking: It’s always interesting to me how…
I have a confession to make. I have always struggled with the concept of the Holy Spirit. That might not sound like a big deal,…