If you were scripting an evangelical novel about redemption from a gay lifestyle, it would read a lot like the son-mother story told in Out of a Far Country.  But this is a true story.

The longer I serve as a pastor, the more I’m convinced my critics are right.
Which ones?  Pretty much all of them.  It’s not that they’re right about everything, just that most of their complaints have merit.  I mess up a lot.

You probably shouldn’t read St. Paul’s letters, and definitely shouldn’t criticize them, without reading a 2010 book by Sarah Ruden, Paul Among the People: The Apostle Reinterpreted and Reimagined in His Own Time.  My college friend Dave Cox recommended this book, and I’m profoundly grateful.

Did you know that as early as 1953, Billy Graham personally tore down the ropes separating black and white seating areas at one of his crusades?  I didn’t.
Did you know that 19th century revivalist Charles Finney once said, “My duty is to belong to the Church, even if the devil should belong to it?”  I [...]

When you never start because you will never finish, you lose.
Jeremiah 31:31-34
June 5, 2011
West Point
Among our graduates today is Ben Gibbs, who is, as far as I know, the first member of Corinth Reformed Church to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point.  Ben, congratulations from your church family.  As you enter [...]