The Preacher’s Payday – Available on Amazon!
5Finally The Preacher’s Payday has arrived. Well, not the actual Day, just the book about it. Giddy with delight, and basking in God’s graciousness to me, I got to grasp in my hand a copy of my first (Lord willing) published book. In seminary I [...]
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Tunnel Vision: The Personal Purgatory of Kevin Tunell
In the early hours of Friday, January 1, 1982 the seventeen year-old Kevin Tunell made the biggest mistake of his life. At a New Year’s party near Washington DC, he got very drunk; his friends urged him not to drive but he insisted, “Nothing will [...]
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Roe v. Abortion: the Radical Repentance of Norma McCorvey
In June 1969 Norma McCorvey tried to get an abortion. Her lying failed to secure legal permission, and her scheme to obtain an illegal abortion also ended unsuccessfully. She then gathered a diabolical duo of fee-hungry attorneys to gear up for a protracted legal fight. [...]
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Supercentenarians and Family Support
The highest grade in the officially recognized Chinese martial arts system is Ninth Duan. It is a prestigious honor that takes a lifetime of sustained training and experience to attain. The most famous martial master to achieve this level, is Lu Zijian; and it only [...]
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Raising Bubble Babies
The fascinating case of young David Vetter, makes for a vivid illustration. Vetter was born in 1971 with a condition ominiously called Severe Combined Immunodeficiency. What that meant was that his little body had no natural ability to fight off any disease. The mildest form [...]
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They’re Big in Africa: Evangelical Bigwigs hit Rezolution 2013
Last week, I while I was hanging out with CJ Mahaney, Mark Dever, and Kevin DeYoung… OK, so I confess I didn’t know where that sentence was heading, just that I wanted to use it sometime this week. For all my disdain of Evangelical hagiolatry [...]
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Tax Time: When Worship Hurts
January 25, 1999 was the day I became a hater. As I slowly tore open the envelope with my very first real paycheck I was looking forward to the juiciest check on which I had ever seen my own name inscribed. But as my eyes [...]
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Why we wait. What the Bible says about sex before marriage
When I was in college and a brand new believer, I was asked a question that caught me off guard: Where in the Bible does it say that Christians should wait until marriage to have sex? It stumped me because a) I didn’t know my [...]
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I See Dead People: Must Christians Believe in the Dead Being Raised?
In 2005 a Russian man made the news with his claims of being able to bring dead people back to life. This was no Miracle Max resuscitation of the “mostly dead” nor a psychic sixth sense of channeling revenant spirits. His claims were audaciously clear: [...]
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