Category: Spiritual Blogs

When what I’m sharing is of a biblical or spiritual nature, you’ll find it here.

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It happened in a Mexican prison

Ok, some time back I wrote about some of my worst ministry experiences. Today as I was out for a bike ride, it occurred to me that I’d better also write about some of the best ones, just to balance things out. Let me share with you some great experiences I’ve had over the years. I want to share these things, not to glorify myself, but to thank and glorify God for the privilege of being used by Him, and experiencing His power working through me.

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My most negative ministry experiences

I don't really know why, but I've had the impression for some time that I should share with you some very negative experiences from my life of ministry. This might seem long, and you might question why I share it at all! But I want to be obedient to share these things with those of you who read my blog.  I got a feeling it might be related to my recent studies of Pauline Theology, because Paul said he gloried and boasted in his weaknesses. (2 Cor. 11:30)

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How our visit to Iona turned into a divine appointment

Back in July, my daughter, a U.S. Army captain, paid my way to come be with her, her husband, and my two grandsons in the UK. It was a wonderful experience, and we saw sights in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. While in Scotland I had what I would call a “divine appointment,” an experience set up by God so His gospel could be shared with people who needed to hear it. I mentioned this experience on Facebook, but never gave details. The reason was because I witnessed to two people and gave them my website, so I didn’t want them going there and reading what I wrote about them. Now that some time is past, and because last week our pastor asked us to share something God had done recently, I thought I’d type it up. It really was an example of how God can use any situation for His glory and for the spread of the gospel. Continue reading “How our visit to Iona turned into a divine appointment”

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God’s Mistakes?

A man in a line at one of apologist Frank Turek’s events asked a leading question. He took some time to list what he considered mistakes God made. He created the world and humans, then decided it was all a mistake that had to be wiped out by the Flood. He was sorry He’d even made man. Then He chose Abraham and in this guy’s estimation, “started over again” to produce a better group of people. But the Israelites failed God, so that was a mistake. Then He sent “another dude,” Jesus, to start yet again, but that hasn’t turned out that well. The Church has had all sorts of infighting, heresies, has gotten too involved with politics, etc. So these were all God’s mistakes. The guy concluded by asking, “So when is God going to finally get things right?”

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Don’t blame God!

In my last blog, I talked about the NYC Muslim terrorist attack with a pickup truck. Since then we've had yet another act of madness and evil, the church shooting in Texas. This is horror with an added twist - it was perpetrated against a church, against God's people. Even the poor pastor has lost his 14 year old daughter. I can just hear people asking, "Why did God allow this?" Skeptics or atheists might even say, "This proves there's no all-powerful and all-good God. If such a God existed, He would never allow this to happen to His people, would He?" Well-meaning Christians may even be trying to come up with explanations as to why God would have allowed this hateful act. Maybe there's some secret divine plan that we'll all understand someday in heaven? To that sort of thinking, I say one word - baloney! Don't blame God for this - He had nothing to do with it!

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The Positives of World Religions

As a Christian and a preacher/teacher, I am frequently teaching people how different cults or world religions differ from Christianity and biblical teaching. In doing so, I have to point out what’s wrong with these other belief systems, how they contradict the Bible, how they go against the evidence, why they are untrue and even demonically inspired. I consider this to be part of my calling. You can’t just proclaim the truth; it’s also necessary to compare and contrast it with anything untrue.

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Some thoughts on women in ministry

So a friend posted a link today on Facebook, telling how pastor Bill Hybels of Willow Creek church in Barrington, Illinois has raised up a replacement for himself when he retires in 2018. He has a teaching pastor to do the preaching and teaching, and an executive pastor, who presumably, will handle admin duties and may preach and teach too, I’m not sure. Well, there seems to be all sorts of protest over his allowing a woman to take his place as a pastor. First of all, I would point out that we don’t know the details. What if this woman is strictly doing admin duties? Is that a problem? But on the other hand, what if she preaches and teaches. What about that? Doesn’t the Bible say women can’t be pastors? I’m pretty amazed at all the responses this friend is getting. People are saying Paul was in error, we should listen to Jesus and not Paul, people are saying well, that teaching that women can’t speak in church is just man’s interpretation, etc., etc. I think Christians need more education! I’d like to share a section of a teaching I did on 1 Corinthians 14, because it deals with this subject. Please continue reading to see my teaching notes, cut and pasted into this blog.  Continue reading “Some thoughts on women in ministry”

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