God knows just the right time to… (tweet)

(click picture to enlarge) “Like apples of gold in settings of silver Is a word spoken in right circumstances.” (Proverbs 25:11)

10 Lies of the Devil (redux) plus podcast

(To listen to the podcast of this post, click here for Part 1, click here for Part 2 and click here for Part 3.) I have written on this topic before. (To read 10 Lies of the Devil, click here. To read 10 More Lies of the Devil, click here.) I feel strangely moved to […]

Men Jesus Called (video teaching series)

(For the entire Men Jesus Called teaching series by Richard @mcProdigal and Mike @aheartforgod, click here.)

Information Please (Don’t Doubt the Impression You’re Making)

(The author of this piece is unknown. I had to post it because you have to read it.) When I was quite young, my father had one of the first telephones in our neighborhood. I remember well the polished old case fastened to the wall. The shiny receiver hung on the side of the box. […]

Why Not Sex Outside of Marriage?

“Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.” (1 Corinthians 6:18; NIV) I’ve always been fascinated by the tigers at the zoo. I can remember one zoo in particular (Como Park, Saint Paul, Minnesota) where you could look down upon […]

The Story of How I Got My Gibson Explorer (guitar)

I had the following conversation on Twitter recently with Big Shane Slade (@shaneawesome). It’s just such a great story about how I got my Gibson Explorer (pictured). And yet it’s about so much more than that… The Story of How I Got My Gibson Explorer (guitar): (Each of these are the original tweets. I just […]

Don’t worry about what others think… (tweet)

(click picture to enlarge) “‘I have loved you with an everlasting love.’” (Jeremiah 31:3b)

If My People (chorus)

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7 Reasons Why God Allows Wicked People to Rule

“Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord more than all who were before him. It came about, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he married Jezebel.” (1 Kings 16:30-31a) Why does God allow […]

The 11th Hour

“‘And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing around; and he said to them, “Why have you been standing here idle all day long?”‘” (Matthew 20:6) You’ve heard the phrase “the eleventh hour” before? Sure you have. What you might not have known is its biblical roots. In His parable of […]