The trend in recent years has been to isolate young people away from the “old people” in the church and into their own “secluded factions.” The reasoning has been something like this: “Young people don’t want to be around the older folks. We’ll attract more young people if we’ll energize them into active, fun and exciting  programs … without the ‘old folks.’”…

Whenever someone thinks that we’re binding something that we shouldn’t be binding (like singing a cappella in worship, or limiting the public leadership role of women in the church), that’s when the assaults of legalism are hurled at us. This, of course, is meant as a sharp criticism and is intended to get us to back down and/or minimize our influence upon…

Have you ever noticed that two people often do not see the same circumstances or situation alike? Sometimes there are slight differences in their perspectives. Sometimes there are vast chasms between their viewpoints. Why the difference? Obviously, one’s motives and emotions can have much to do with it; but, let’s assume (giving the benefit of the doubt) that each party has pure…

This may seem unusual, but there’s something that’s just not adding up, and maybe you can help. As a father, I help my girls with their homework every night, and math problems are my responsibility. The nice thing about math is that there is a certain (logical) process to follow in solving each problem and then there is usually a way (once…

After all I’ve done, could God ever forgive me? After all of the thoughts I’ve had in my heart, would God ever want me back? After all that I’ve done for the wrong motives and the distanced place that I’ve kept God in my life, why would He ever want to forgive me and take me back? It is certain that we…