Nan has again asked me to share some thoughts this holiday season. Since we are thinking about Christmas, it’s a perfect occasion to evaluate our relationship with our Lord.

Nan has asked me to continue sharing some thoughts this month about The Kingdom, Power and Glory: The Overcomer’s Handbook from a pastoral point of view. This month, we are looking more closely at sin in the Christian life.

There is now another Middle East crisis currently flaring up. Yet, this one is an excellent example of the necessity of a valid (larger) perspective. To the myopic or uninformed, the broader implications will be missed. The tactical details alone will fail to yield the broader, more sinister strategy…

“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.” 2 Timothy 3:16

This month, with our celebration of Thanksgiving, we initiate our holiday season: a time for families and a time of reflection.

The verse below has taken on a special significance in recent months as the Palestinian Authority [formerly the Palestinian Liberation Organization or PLO] announced their plans to gain U.N. approval of a Palestinian state.

Nan has asked me to continue sharing some thoughts this month on The Kingdom, Power and Glory: The Overcomer’s Handbook from a pastoral point of view. This month, we are looking more closely at how believers respond to God’s Love.

Have you been watching our current economic times with much inter-est? I sure have. There are many, many issues in our country and world that give me concern both financially and spiritually...

Later this month, hordes of costumed children will be hitting the streets in search of candy and other treats. Yet, Halloween is not just “trick or treat” and “fun and games.” Halloween practices can open the door to the occult and can introduce forces into people’s lives that they are not equipped to combat.

America’s “War on Drugs,” which officially began in 1971, was repopularized in 1984 by then-President Ronald Reagan.  Our current failed economic policies may be setting the perfect storm for the pharmakeia referenced in Revelation:

“Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.” Philippians 4:11

We have had several “Mini-Conferences” at the River Lodge in New Zealand, and we’ve discovered this may be one of the most powerful events we have ever experienced...

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. -Matthew 24:7–8

In his 2007 scholarly work, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Nassim Nicholas Taleb explains why the black swan is a metaphor about the significance of unexpected events in history...

Nan has asked me to share some thought this month about The Kingdom, Power and Glory from a pastoral point of view...

This is our third article on the Parable of the Ten Virgins in Matthew 25. It’s part of an ongoing survey of our book The Kingdom, Power and Glory. As we said in our last issue, this parable is very controversial and many see it quite differently than we do, so be sure to use Acts 17:11 as you read:

U.S. environmental groups are calling for a cessation of licensing agreements for nuclear power plants, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel ordered a halt to new reactor construction and the closing of some existing ones in the wake of the apparent meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima power plant.

Over the many decades that I have enjoyed my love affair with the Bible, I have had the marvelous benefit of many great teachers. I’ve also had the incredible experience of fellowshipping in one of the most famous churches emphasizing expositional teaching from the Word of God. But I would like to let you in on a precious secret.

At sundown on August 8th, our Jewish friends will observe Tish’ah b’Av (“The Ninth Day of Av”). This is a special day of mourning, since on this day four major tragedies occurred...

In his 1922 science fiction novel, The Chess Men of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs describes a Mars whose inhabitants are so advanced that they prize contemplation above all and exist simply as heads. They have no need for oxygen or food and move using the bodies of headless creatures.