There’s no way to avoid division in life. What I’m determined to seek after is what’s outlined in 2 Timothy 2:24: “The Lord’s bond-servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged.” Confrontation marked Jesus’ ministry, so I know this kindness CAN’T be the absence of strife. They wanted to kill him for his teaching. Well, I’m not him, but I do try to follow ...  Read More

I watched a 22-second video today of a group of four young ladies from the University of Kentucky dancing in front of a guy on a college campus who was protesting abortion. God bless him. They were celebrating abortion with a mocking dance with a few declaring how they’d immediately “kill their baby” if they got pregnant. They also said things like, “No uterus no opinion” to him and other commonly...  Read More

Reader, even the most sanctified of followers alive today is still a universe away from that closeness he or she will know with God in the life to come. Christ’s work is not complete in any living saint reading this. In this life, we are justified in Christ entirely, and we are in that salvation sanctifying if we’re smart, but the work of God he calls our “glorification” is still pending for anyo...  Read More

One of the most wonderful, shaping, compelling, inspiring, and repentance-sustaining passages in all the Bible for me for decades now has been Jesus’ wonderful words in Matthew 5:8: “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” (NASB). What a promise! When I think of these words, I just say to myself, “No matter what comes in life I ain’t gonna miss that! I wanna see God!” Yet just this...  Read More

I currently live just north of Tampa, Florida. As I'm typing this, the weather outside my study window is showing strong and dark signs of the soon overhead category 3 hurricane named "Milton" that's on its way. It's the first storm of this magnitude that Tampa has dealt with in about a hundred years. And I just moved back here last year! Great! It was a category 5 then a 4 out in the Gulf of Mexi...  Read More

on 25 Sep 24, someone on X re-posted this meme above with the following response:“Just going to keep reposting this every time Protestants lie: The Catholic Church has NEVER ONCE taught that indulgences forgive sins. This is exactly why so many Catholics think Protestants are simply unintelligent.”I replied with the following:Sir, I’d like to respond. It’s been well said that “He who frames the ar...  Read More