If you could help stop a genocide would you? Right now, one of the worst atrocities in the world is unfolding in Sudan. The genocide we witnessed in Darfur is still being played being out against the people of Northern Sudan. It is the same people group being persecuted, the same government regime and the [...]

To the best of my knowledge no one in my biological family is gay, though odds are that at least a few are. This post is about my spiritual family. A couple of months ago I wrote a blog post on the sin of homosexuality that got a fair amount of comment traffic. It was [...]

I wish I could somehow tally all of the great blog posts I’ve been inspired to write due to late evening talks with my wife. I owe her a sincere thank you for that, even if not all of the “talks” have been done at a talking level in regards to volume. We’re working on [...]

Today was the annual “See You At The Pole” prayer meeting so I figured I’d post a post and see what happens.  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I have no problem with a group of students getting together and praying on school grounds.  It’s their Constitutional right to do so.  So [...]

There are a couple of ways (okay probably more than a couple of ways) that God is understood to have dealt with humanity throughout the ages. The two most prominent are Dispensationalism and Covenant Theology. At the risk of doing damage to either and in the interest of saving space I won’t go into too [...]

This past Sunday this was our corporate confession. “Now is the time for fasting and prayer begging our Father’s forgiveness for destroying his creation with our carelessness and greed. We are all guilty. Have mercy on this country, O Lord. Free us from our addiction. Restore your ocean. Amen.” It was put up on the [...]

So I heard about this on NPR and now read about it at the Washington Post, the Christian Legal Society is going to battle for its right to discriminate against homosexuals and non-Christians. Apparently the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law has a policy that if you are to be an officially recognized [...]

I saw this comic in my Facebook stream and it caught me. (ht to nakedpastor) If you click the picture and go to his blog you’ll see it inspired a whole bunch of comments as you can imagine. Some come from atheists and some from believers all pitching in their two cents. After chatting it [...]

Alan Middleton, podcast fan (and better yet Archangel fan) and associate professor at Ohio University wants us to fill out this podcast survey. It’s not over long as these things go and asks some good questions. It will be available for five weeks and he hopes to have the results available in a few months. [...]

In Episode 15 For Real! Leigh and I talk about how we as Christians need to love the sinner and hate the sin. Promo for http://www.classicyak.org/ played.