Marty is a fairly nice guy.
Certainly, he has his foibles: he drinks a bit, is harsh on the kids, has some problems with racial bigotry and the like. For many years, he was married to an unfaithful spouse. She slept around and was quite disrespectful of the entire institution of marriage. Finally, [...]

In Part I of this series, we examined the need to view the entire Christmas story arc – which begins in Exodus (after the prologue in Genesis) and ends with John the Baptizer’s declaration of “Behold the Lamb of God”.
Today, I would like to take a quick journey in trying to determine when, during the [...]

This is the first part in what (I hope) will be a many-part series over the next 2.5 months which strives to place Christ’s birth within its context, demonstrating how powerful his story is – especially when viewed in the cultural context in which God placed it.
Living in America, particularly, we often get a very [...]

For those of you who missed it first time around – or wished you had taken your friends (Christian or non-Christian) – the video of ‘Everything is Spiritual’ will be available in early November from Zondervan publishers. For those of you wondering where the title of the presentation (which runs about 1:45 minutes, but flies [...]

I’ve always been somewhat amused/bemused/confused with Online Discernment Ministries (ODM’s) and their fetish with dead theologians who might (or might not) have agreed with them, had they only been alive.  In some cases, idol worship almost fails to go far enough in describing the slavish devotion paid to these past thinkers, some wise, some pompous.   [...]

Apparently for Apprising Ministries, the answer is a resounding “no”…

In Part I of this article, we examined what, according to the Hebrew Scriptures, the people of Israel were “chosen” for:
1. They were to be blessed in order that they would pass that blessing on to the world.
2. They are to live in such a way that the world may know that Yahweh is God, [...]