Simply put, sin ruins freedom, and it ruins it for everyone!
Peaches, summer heat, freedom, and faith in God...

Read more Simply put, sin ruins freedom, and it ruins it for everyone!
Peaches, summer heat, freedom, and faith in God...
Read more Simply put, sin ruins freedom, and it ruins it for everyone!
“Sin (hate) is crouching at your door; it desires to have you.” – God, Genesis 4 People have been asking me when I’m going to write about Charlottesville, and the troubling toehold white supremacist and other neofascist groups seem to have established in the landscape of contemporary American ideology. Well, I’ve been taking pause to observe,…
Read more hate is “us-gone-wrong” – it lives in all of us #Charlottesville
The strength gained from the apple dissolved the potency of God in and through us. The way back to God is through Christ's self-giving, servant heart - it is by willingly giving away all claims we have to the power, and the knowledge, and the mortality that became ours the instant we identified with Adam and Eve's apple-coup - and we all do.
This is one of those blog posts that is a response to a question. And, like most such posts, I’m probably giving a bigger answer than the question begs. But I’m an over-thinker; always have been; that’s just what writers do. The question came out of a hymn. Or, more properly, a spiritual. Here’s the text…
Read more didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel? (preaching to the choir)
“One thing is for sure, if anyone is going to be rejecting me, condemning me for my sin, and saying I have no place in the community of faith, it’s not going to be Jesus. You see, Jesus has already talked to his Father about me, and we’re going to be all right.” OK, friends.…
Read more a few words about Christians behaving badly on-line…
So why do you condemn another believer? Why do you look down on another believer? Remember, we will all stand before the judgment seat of God. For the Scriptures say, “‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord, ‘every knee will bend to me, and every tongue will declare allegiance to God.’” – Romans 14:10-11…
Read more Let’s stop judging… condemning… criticizing… denouncing one another (Paul)
Sin is no longer your master, for you no longer live under the requirements of the law. Instead, you live under the freedom of God’s grace. – Romans 6:14 WEEKEND UPDATE: I’d write about this morning’s discussion from Romans Six, but once I got started it would be hard to keep my post a reasonable length.…
Read more Weekend Update: law, grace, birthdays, and reciprocating saws
It’s Thursday. Or, as they say on facebook, “Throwback Thursday.” Throwback Thursday is not typically a game I play, but this photograph with my brother seemed to jump out at me when I noticed it in my parents’ living room yesterday, so I thought I’d share. The image was captured when Geoff and I were both in our early…