At the end of Paul’s letter to the Colossians, there is a mention of the epistle of the Laodicean church (4:17). Now, do not worry if you have not read Paul’s Epistle to the Laodiceans. It is not in the Bible, and As a matter of fact, there is no copy of the letter, which […]
Absent of Leadership
One of the things that I see us losing in our society is excellent leadership. Finding men/women that will lead is becoming more and more difficult in our culture. In this canceled culture, more and more people in leadership positions do not truly lead when dealing with conflict. Maybe it is due to all the […]
Preach to me Preacher!
In 2 Timothy, Paul is at the end of his life and knows that his time is about up, so he writes a letter to his spiritual son Timothy. Paul tells Timothy that there is coming a time that people will no longer want to hear true sound doctrine preached but rather will want to […]
The Purpose of Man
In our Wednesday night Man Church, we have been talking about purpose. The main purpose of every man who is a husband and a father is to be the spiritual leader of the home. Now any man that has been in church on Father’s Day knows that we get told this every year. We often […]
The Steps of a Good Man
I was talking to a young man the other day that has faced a disappointment, and he asked me a question, “Does God still promote men who are faithful on the backside of the desert because it seems those that get promoted these days are those at the king’s table.” As I ponder on that, […]
Priest of the Home
One of the issues we face today is that we have an all-out attack on masculinity. We have somehow concluded that being masculine is wrong, and society needs to change the very definition of a man. We have so many men even in the church who are not operating within God’s role within the family […]
Guarding Unity
The book of Ephesians can be broken into two parts. The first three chapters talk to us about being a Christian and what that means to us. Then Paul takes the last three chapters to tell us how we are to live as Christians. In chapter four, Paul begins to share what we do as […]
Giving the Right way
I had a conversation today, and afterward, I was drawn to read Matthew 6, in which Jesus is talking to us about how we are to act when we give to those in need. Now in our social media world of today, most people seem to post their entire life online. I mean, everything they […]
We need Fellowship
The great Red Woods of California can be as high as 300 ft tall and some as much as 40 around. They only grow in grooves, and they get the great mass because the root system is intertwined. So, the massive tree truly lifts one another up, and the groove is the reason they grow […]
Welcome to Disappointment
Throughout life, we have moments, many of them, where we must deal with disappointment. I mean, we lose our job, or a relationship ends. We lose the big game, or we lose someone we love. Disappointment comes when we expect one thing and get something totally different and far worse. The Bible tells us that […]
Death of Cultural Christianity
Just last week, I celebrated thirty years of preaching the gospel, and this week I will have been in the pastorate for twenty-seven. With that said, one of the most dangerous things that I have seen in that time is the rise of the “cultural Christian.” The truth is the very title is an oxymoron […]
Lukewarm Church
In Revelation 3, starting with verse 14, Jesus addresses the last of the seven churches of Asia Minor, the church of Laodicea. Most know this is the church that has been called the lukewarm church. For a church, there is nothing worse than being lukewarm. A lukewarm church is because the members are lukewarm and […]
Fighting without Purpose
One of the greatest tactics that the enemy has against the church is something that most churches never think about or even consider. Yes, the enemy does tempt people in the church to sin and fall away from the faith, and he is out to destroy the men and women of God leading the church. […]
Where is the Church?
Throughout the years, the church has faced the same situations, crises, pandemics, and disasters. The first-century church dealt with the persecution that became so severe that Christians were thrown into the Roman arena to be eaten by lions. At one point, Caesar has so many Christians crucified that they ran out of trees in the […]
Help Wanted
The other day I was walking into a business and notice a help wanted sign in the window. I thought that I had been seeing them more and more, so I began to look every time I went into a place over the next few days. I noticed that in almost every place I went, […]
Confidence in Uncertain Times
As we come upon the Easter season, I am all way filled with excitement. Easter is a time of life, resurrection, where things that seem to have been lost are now brought back to life, or that is how it looks to me. I was thinking this morning of how it must have been for […]
A Prepared Place
In John 14, we find Jesus at the last supper with His disciples (upper room pictured above), and He is giving them the last lesson that He will give them before the cross. Jesus has, in chapter 13, showing them what it means to serve one another as He had demonstrated what a leader in […]
It is Just Not the Same
This week I had a conversation will a high-ranking member of the school board about the challenges that COVID has played in education. We talked about in house learning compared to virtual learning from home and the greatest differences that he saw. He told me that no matter how good the system was for virtual […]
The Early Church Theme
Over the past few months, I have been doing a deep dive into the first-century church. I wanted to know how they operated and study the way the church was formed. I got deep into this because I truly believe the best way for us to learn what the church should be is to look […]
The Online Experience
Well, 2020 has had its challenges for all of us, and we are all trying to figure out how we can navigate through it. One of the things for me as a pastor is not seeing people in worship the way that I have been used to over the year. I mean, church attendance is […]
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