I am often on Facebook and Twitter.  For the most part, I enjoy using social media, and I use them for fun, to communicate with people who are important to me, and to promote my faith, beliefs, thoughts, actions, politics, and even my favorite sports teams.  While online, I am...

Last year, I blogged about a young man living in our dumpster behind the church.  He had a host of issues that led him to our dumpster.  He had major family issues.  He didn’t know his biological family and his foster family was unable and unwilling to care for him...

I hear a lot of complaints and negativity, so from time to time, I like to point out the good in the world! This last week, I was highly encouraged by the story of golfer Phil Mickelson.  He is an excellent golfer–one of the best in the world–but he consistently...

Guns have been high on the list of controversial issues in recent months.  Some lawmakers are proposing new restrictions on gun ownership, while others just as ardently defend our Second Amendment rights, and there is a great deal of anger on both sides.  Personally, I don’t believe that any of the proposed legal solutions...

Christians have been using technology from the beginning.  We were among the first to employ scribes to repeatedly copy the Bible.  We were among the very first to use the printing press and later the radio. Our missionary organizations have been using airplanes for decades.  And most churches I visit use...

Several people have asked for a copy of my Christmas Eve sermon.  We didn’t record it, since we met in the gym.  This is an abridged, after Christmas, version of those remarks.  The night that Jesus was born was a holy and special night like no other in the history...

Like most Americans, I have prayed deeply for the families in Connecticut who lost children. I have been angered by the evil that seems ever present,  and I have recommitted myself to preaching the truths of God’s love and the gospel of Jesus Christ.  While thinking and praying, the words...

As many of you know, I recently completed a four month stint on a Maricopa County Grand Jury.  A Grand Jury is different from a trial jury.  Instead of determining guilt or innocence in just one case, we were determining probable cause for many cases and then issuing indictments when...

I wrote this primarily for me, for I find it quite helpful for me to count my blessings.  Nevertheless, I thought that some of you might find it helpful to read as a springboard for your own time of thanksgiving.  This is  by no mean an exhaustive list, for the more I...

Another major American leader had his career destroyed this week when an adulterous affair was revealed. And at this point, no one knows for sure just how far this investigation will go.  Are there others involved?  Has a culture of cheating invaded every aspect of American life? Even a cursory...