Category: Church Issues

While I recognize that we live in broken sexual culture and that the threats to a traditional and healthy sexuality abound, I have been hesitant to write about it. The reason for this is...

The New Pornography of Hate and Violence It circulates across our television and computer screens every day. One mass shooting follows another. It no longer seems to matter if the victims are children or...

1. Maybe…just maybe…Christians will now take all the money and energy they squandered on politics and pour it into evangelism and discipleship…you know, church stuff…maybe that’s how you change a culture…maybe… 2. Oddly enough,...

Today, millions of Christians will go to the polls and “vote for godliness” and “take a stand for Jesus” while the church itself is a cesspool of corruption, abuse and heresy. They will go...

As I sit at my desk this morning I’m aware that tomorrow is Election Day and my Oregon mail in ballot is serving as a coaster for my coffee cup. At some point, I’ll...

1. For 22 years now, whenever we have written an article exposing the sins of popular Christian leaders, someone in the comments section of the article has reviled us for doing so. There has...

1. I think there are as many truly regenerated Christians outside the institutional church as inside of it…. and at this juncture in history, they are the ones following Jesus…who has also left most...

Unpaid Bills It is difficult to write these days. It sometimes seems hard to imagine why any additional verbiage would add anything of value to peoples lives. Whether we like to admit it or...

Things Change It is amazing how things change. I can remember a discussion at the little Calvary Chapel Church that I pastored in Ohio many years ago. We had started an early morning service,...