Brief Thoughts, Inspirations, and the occasional Provocation for the people of Garden Sanctuary, and you too…
Tuesday's romp was brought to you by a simple reality: you cannot build a lasting governmental coalition without a moral compass to anchor it. The Trump coalition is inherently fickle (notice how many of its original supporters are now openly campaigning against Trump), because rather than shared principles, it was built on personality, grievance, and... Continue Reading →
Public executions are not unchristian. Enjoying them is. To the modern ear, that couplet sounds like a barbaric contradiction. The progressive recoils, insisting that our civilization has grown beyond such antiquated brutality. Conservative populists may cheer the first sentence while failing to acknowledge the weight of the second. Both have lost their grip on the... Continue Reading →
THE AGENDA IS… There have been many descriptors following those words over the past few assemblies. This time, I hear things like “straightforward” and “not controversial,” almost as if that is a disappointment. It has even been posited that other than electing a department director and new Executive Council, “there isn’t much on there,” and... Continue Reading →
A paradox is offered in Leviticus 2. Here we find the Supreme Creator of the Universe, who hangs stars on nothing, carves mountain ranges, and sets the boundaries of the seas, telling His people how He wants to be approached. He doesn’t request some great feat or the completion of a quest. Jehovah doesn’t want... Continue Reading →
Last night, the world lurched forward down a path that seemed inevitable, that could have been prevented, but that is here nonetheless. As the U.S. and Israel launch attacks against the Iranian regime—an action necessitated by Iran’s refusal to abandon its mission to obtain nuclear weapons and its calls to destroy the U.S. and Israel—the... Continue Reading →
I have been asked for my thoughts on the TPUSA halftime show. I did not watch either halftime show—or the Super Bowl, for that matter—and cannot remember the last time I saw one. I spent last night fellowshipping with a group of pastors. That said, by all accounts, I am glad I didn't watch. I... Continue Reading →
To call it a death would be melodramatic, but something certainly “ceased to be” this week. It started as a trickle, an article here or there, then a deluge of Christian media outlets began carrying the story that Chip and Joanna Gaines, long hailed as standard bearers of Christian success in business and entertainment, had... Continue Reading →
