On a pristine spring Sunday morning in 2020, our church leadership met before people started arriving for service. There was tension in the air. No one quite knew what to expect, as we were potentially violating recent New York mandates concerning gatherings of more than 10 people. We had sent a letter to the local […]

Ever since Adam and Eve ate the fruit they shouldn’t have, people have been getting old with remarkable regularity, barring premature send-off. One part of growing older, for all that time, has been a decay of physical capacity, a loss of durability, strength, recovery speed, and even dexterity. Rest becomes increasingly mandatory; physical labor becomes […]

The internet is on its worst behavior again with the apparent revelation of Dr. Steve Lawson being a speaker at a conference for pastors. My friend Justin Peters correctly “called out” this planned and publicly advertised appearance by Lawson. I have previously written about Lawson’s sin problem here. In that article, I surmise that his […]

Nick Saban is arguably the greatest college football coach of all time. He had a combined win-loss record of 297-71-1, 11 SEC championships, 7 national championships out of 9 appearances, 4 Heisman Trophy winners, and 49 first-round draft picks. But, in order for him to be the greatest coach of all time, he had to […]