A Pilgrim's Progress

I was planning to blog about various tyrannies that we all face in life. These include tyranny of self, tyranny of the now, tyranny of temp...

According to the Pew Forum, many Americans mix and match multiple faiths (to read the entire report, click here ). The recent report says, ...

It wasn't Noah's flood , but it was bad enough. Yesterday morning when I arrived at the church facility, I found our secretary and o...

I just ran the A Pilgrim's Progress numbers for the past couple of months. In November and December, I have posted 85 times. Some of ...

This is a sort of "double-bonus" for me. Since I like coffee a great deal and since prostate cancer runs wild amongst the males o...

Watch and be thankful. This is a good reminder to us that "chance," "luck," and "fate" do not exist. Anythi...

The Barna Group has published new numbers on the status of mainline churches in the USA. Not surprisingly, the data does not look good for...

#1 - Dave Black Online (Dave is probably not going to be thrilled about being #1.) First, a little background: in the fall of 2005 I took a ...

Ephesians 4:29, "Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that i...

According to Fox News , "The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles elected a lesbian as assistant bishop Saturday, the second openly gay bis...

Do we really need a " Battle of the Faiths "? With all the religiously-instigated violence in the world, the last thing we need i...

Philippians 2:1-11 (ESV) says the following: "So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in t...

The city of New Delhi, India has begun a campaign to keep its people from publicly urinating. Having lived in India for four months, I can...

#2 - Albert Mohler I respect Dr. Albert Mohler because of his stand for the truth of the scriptures and for his excellent leadership as pres...

This , according to Fox News . I have to admit that this "project" doesn't feel right to me. The artwork, as described in th...

My daughter Caroline is an aspiring photographer. She has put together a very nice 2010 calendar of her floral photos. I've seen it and...

#3 - Between Two Worlds Justin Taylor is amazing. He must be plugged directly into the internet for the majority of the day. That's th...

(I have no idea who these people are; I just like the photo.)

Wow and sigh .

My phone rang at about 9:45 this morning. That was not the surprise. A woman on the other end asked me if I could lead a bible study with a...