It has been a very long time since I have posted a personal update. Some of you know me; many of you do not. So I thought with the New Year I would answer a handful of questions that you might have regarding our website and/or myself.

Because cities are going to be judged as single entities in the final judgment (see Matthew 10:11-15) and because the living God has sovereignly placed each of us in a particular city   (Acts 17:26), and because He has commissioned us to “seek the welfare of the city we live in” (Jeremiah 29:7), it behooves we disciples of Jesus to fight for the eternal destiny of our cities.

People who love violence or tend to resort to violence as a way of life need to know God hates and is opposed to such people. Do you realize that the primary reason God flooded the earth is because of the corruption and violence that everyone to one degree or another were walking in?

Listen friends, it is entirely possible to diligently and regularly search the Scriptures and not see what God wants you to see; and not experience what God wants you to experience. 

Children can overcome most anything if they know their father is in their corner. If he consistently is not, their motivation and self confidence receives a heavy blow.

Some of you need to learn to “wait” for your change. You have been impatient and have wrongly deducted that since you have not been able to overcome whatever your particular battle has been, God has not heard your prayer, and you are just going to have to learn to live with this limp or defect.

We believers have a great tendency to involve ourselves in too many things, which over time whittles away at our pursuit of Christ and Him alone. This is especially a snare for those of us in ministry, as many of these things we are involved in are “for the Lord” or “for His kingdom” and thus surely are good and necessary things

When a husband and father gladly opens his home (hopefully in oneness with his wife) to others - it teaches children that people are important, and our “things” are not just for our enjoyment.

"From the moment Jesus first laid eyes on Jairus He knew what He was going to do. He knew there would be delays. He knew there would be unbelief and walking by sight all around Jairus. And He knew Jairus must overcome his own unbelief and the unbelief of others around him to be pleasing to God..."

Even though we have multiple Christian churches in every town (compared to other nations), in some places seemingly on every block, there is an alarming lack of theological and experiential knowledge of the risen Lord of lords and King of kings Jesus Christ among most Americans.

In no way am I trying to scare my readers. But I do want to say without reservation that this is not a time to be unclear or fuzzy about where you stand with God. This is not a time to ignore the fact that you could die at any moment and find yourself face to face with your Creator who created you with purpose and with expectations.

. The wicked are always looking for an excuse to justify their rebellion, and one of their favorite excuses is hypocrites in the church or people in the church who practice lawlessness. Peter says our godly behavior and uprightness in observing the laws of the land actually silences such people.

Unprincipled men or women under the church umbrella are a great danger to the health and vitality of Christ’s church. And one of the best ways to avoid this danger is to strive by His power and grace to be a principled man or woman like our Savior.

Almost 50 years later, looking back on all of that, I still think undistracted time alone with the Living God as early in the morning as possible is still one of the greatest gifts He has given to us.

".... it is a grave mistake to put our hope and trust and security in government and/or military leaders and military might."

" (fathers) when you as a lifestyle submit to and welcome the loving, wise, and perfect disciplining and purifying authority of your Heavenly Father, your disciplining of your sons and daughters will have far more authority and effectiveness."

If there ever was any kind of funeral or memorial for someone who died in the New Testament era, God didn’t feel we needed to know about it.

".....have you ever wondered why the Holy Spirit chose to not even mention the death (much less some kind of funeral or memorial) of so many people mentioned in Scripture who knew and walked with God and served God?"

One of the ways the evil one carries out his evil and cunning work is by causing us to elevate our sense of responsibility to family...

when a man begins to follow Jesus a new family culture created by Jesus Himself must take precedence over any aspect of human family culture