Question:
A friend of mine is struggling with the issue of eternal security.  Here’s the gist of his struggle:
John 1:17 says, “For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.”
Eph 2:8 says, “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith.”  Ok, so salvation has come thru grace by [...]

“Let’s Start Over” (Luke 16:1-9), March 8, 2009
There are certain things in life that never satisfy because they only create thirst for more – power, leisure, sex, fitness, and money are perhaps the most common examples.  What they have in common is that none of them is intrinsically evil.  They are morally neutral.  When in [...]

Question:
Our house has not sold, nor have we even had an offer.  I recognize the housing market is depressed, and I am becoming that way myself.  It was our intent to move and rent an apartment in the event the house did not sell.  I am having second thoughts about that, not because I don’t [...]

The default choice is to assume that God put you where you are for a purpose.

The “after words” of The Shack include the following sentence about Mack, the main character in the book:  “He loves larger than most, is quick to forgive, and even quicker to ask for forgiveness.”
Every day of my pastoral life, I encounter people who need a weekend, or maybe a decade, in “the shack.”  I speak [...]