Dear Christian ~ welcome to The Genuine and The Counterfeit. This has been an interesting season, especially the past many weeks. One challenge after another has met me nose to nose and in the news, all while hawking the counterfeit in place of the genuine. With faux everything a cultural immersion these days, I see […]

“Oh God tell me, what’s going on?” My mind could use relief. When in doubt, remember this: beware of unbelief. Welcome, dear Christian, to a timely discussion of the difference between doubt and unbelief. Timely because this is still the age of grace. Understanding that there is a difference may one day save your bacon. […]

There’s a lot of housecleaning been going on, Dear Christian ~ I think it safe to say not a day goes by without an article here or a newsflash there exposing those who hold to have broom, will sweep under rug. There is no stain so red as the crawl of embarrassment and shame when […]

Dear Christian ~ have you heard there’s an APB out on the seven dwarfs of humanity? It’s kind of like those social media alerts that circulate up to five years after the fact. Unfortunately, these seven simply refuse to become an ‘after the fact.’ Still, God has a remedy. The seven dwarfs of humanity are […]

Hello, dear Christian. I’ve wanted to properly introduce ourselves. Here, hold my Bible while I grab some nametags and labelists. Ok, I’m back. Did you know, dear Christian, that progressive was in the vocabulary of the early Church? Whether they formally used the term (somehow I doubteth it) or not, they lived out the meaning […]

Time for a story, dear Christian, about love buckets and joy bombs. The moral of this story: never underestimate the creative power of the love of God – in your life or someone else’s. Many years ago I sat in a conference and listened to a story about God’s love bucket dumped on an unsuspecting […]