Appreciative of systemists like James Fowler, I offer here an artificial framework for thinking about grace. Recognizing that God and His workings are mysterious, this post in no way suggests that I have “figured out” how God sprinkles His grace into the events of human lives. When He does, though, this article suggests how...
Read more →In the early 2000’s, I listened to a lot of Adult Contemporary Pop, and in 2000, this group released a first album that had a song that got a lot of airplay- “I Think God Can Explain”. I liked Splender’s edgy pop rock sound, so I bought their album, and then two years later,...
Read more →Tommy Nelson is the longtime Senior Pastor of Denton Bible Church in Denton, Texas, and someone whose teachings I have listened to and highly regarded for years. Tom sends out a weekly email in which he shares his thoughts on a topic or two. For anyone who is a Christian, I thought this week’s...
Read more →It’s Friday? Head to the club, and crank up the country. It’s honky-tonkin’ time. Time to forget the week and enjoy some stomping with some high octane tunage.
Read more →once, when he was critically young, he saw something so stunningly sordid that it burned its way into his heart and killed a part of it, and of the rest of it that fought to beat and to bleed, within that it laid its eggs so that they would hatch and it could burrow...
Read more →At one time a few years back, my mom liked to share the sweet little story she had of one day talking on the phone to my sister’s son when he was young. She was asking him some questions about his life, and after answering a few, I guess he lost interest in the...
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