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I am convinced that the Church’s current spiritual bankruptcy has finally been dragged into the Light by Covid-19 and the collapse of our nation’s foundations. I actually think the Church is responsible for the condition our nation is in currently,…

I am an auto racing fan. Grew up around it in South Africa. My father’s first job, as an 18 year old in the 1930’s, was for a wealthy mining family who raced two Bugatti Type 35’s. He was their…

You can read Scripture over and over and then see something you’ve never seen before. This morning was like that for me. I was in 1 Samuel 23, which is right in the middle of several chapters of King Saul,…

What is in it for me? Many of our attempts to attract people to the Lord are certainly well-intentioned, but possibly do set up a faulty understanding of the Christian life. “If you give your life to Jesus........” and you…

Most of us are clueless. I know I am. We live our lives, for the most part, oblivious to the real world we live in. By “real world,” I don’t mean the material world encountered by our five senses. I…

All of life these days is a challenge. But here is a new one that came to me in the early hours of this morning after a spectacular first Sunday back together for Sunday services. Well, back together in quotations,…

Over the last few weeks of Covid-19 in-home isolation I have been in various conversations with pastors in our region about the corporate gathering of their people...and I am puzzled and surprised by the lack of urgency in most of…

God always begins with the end in mind. A friend of mine used to say that all the time and how comforting that is for all of us when it comes to trusting Him with the final outcome of our…

I have an Ethiopian pastor friend who talks to me about a “made-in-America” brand of Christianity and how little it resembles the lives of Christians in the rest of the world. I heard a famous young celebrity preacher make two…