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I have now been a resident of Illinois for over a decade. And therefore I have personally experienced the most horrendous and corrupt governmental leadership of my lifetime.
To put the whole mess into one story or illustration of just how bad things really are seems impossible, when we are dealing with the [...]
I am in the concluding phase of my Doctor of Ministry degree journey. I submitted 85 pages last week for chapters 1 and 2 of my final doctoral project, and am awaiting the red marks of the advisors to see how on or off track I am! The topic of my project? [...]
I have to confess, I am a bit frustrated today. I am rather weary of the critics, the pundits, the “evaluators” as I will call them, who analyze and parse and pompously pass judgment on everything and everyone these days! We decide on which movie to go to based on what some obscure person writing [...]
Well, it’s the Christmas season again – days and weeks of dinners, celebrations, travels and events and head into a New Year exhausted yet filled with the memories of things just passed.
So what really matters about it all?
The gifts? Sure – they’re important. I had a great Christmas this year – not because of high [...]
It’s been quite a summer for those concerned about the future of biblical truth and morality in our society. Both the Episcopal Church in the United States and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America have voted at their conventions to allow and endorse ministers who are sexually active (non-celibate is the term they use) in same-sex relationships to be hired by congregations as pastors. … It is a set of decisions literally unimaginable just a few short years ago. The very likely outcome is that both of these historic denominations with whom we as Nazarenes share much of our historical family tree will be split in pieces, with congregations pulling out of the denomination by the dozens or hundreds. The heart of God is no doubt breaking, and the unity Jesus prayed for and pled for in John 17 will never again be realized.