Have you ever been told “pride comes before the fall”? It is one of those sayings we hear often that is attributed to the Bible but is not actually in the Bible. The idea is taken from Proverbs 16:8 which says, “Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall” (KJV). Taking hold…
Today I made a mistake, a major mistake. I was working from home tonight and needed to send an email to the whole church. Being at home, I did not have access to the all church email. So, I came up with what I thought was a solution. I looked at my sent emails, found…
If the Bible is the word of God it has to be relevant to us today. If it is not relevant, it’s not the word of God. We can take the ancient text of the Bible, place it in its historic and literary contact and then lean forward and see how it may apply today. …
Last Sunday, we commemorated Jesus final entry into Jerusalem in what has become known as Palm Sunday. Jesus enters the city on a young donkey from the east, where the day begins. From the west, where the day goes to die, enters Pilate on a war horse with all the pageantry of the state. There…
After coming out as a gay man I left church, or maybe a more accurate wording would be church left me. For about a decade I was angry with God’s people who shamed and shunned me. I wanted little to nothing to do with church. At the time I was living in a rural community,…