Refusing to Compromise for Power
How much evil are we prepared to tolerate in our actions or the actions of others in order to accomplish some good?
Is it Sinful for Christians to Attend Church?
MAY 14, 2014 | BY: STEPHEN MATTSON -- Throughout the history of Christianity believers in Christ have found ways to rationalize the dangerous...
Sympathy for the Devil
OCT 15, 2013 | BY: JOHN WATSON -- In most Christian theologies of the Devil, there is a transformation of some sort, a fall, a rebellion...
Staying "On Message" for Jesus
My congregation Burke United Methodist Church is doing a campaign this fall called Jesus is My Candidate: I Vote for Him Every Day. A dimension of this campaign is thinking about how we “vote” for Jesus (mainta...
The Love in Resurrection
At Calvary, we see what the power of Satan can do. We observe the demonic nature of political and religious power infused by evil. The Roman governor and the Hebrew king, on the one hand, and the priests a...
Stop Abusing the Word "Biblical"!
One of the great epidemics of modern American evangelicalism is the abuse of the word “Biblical” by attaching it to causes and ideas that have nothing to do with the Bible. Last month, I was at a meeting with ...