I had a friend named John many years ago, we used to hang out quite a bit. He knew I was a Christian, and I knew he wasn’t. He would often be around when I was talking to family members or friends abo...  Read More

This morning I cleaned the sinks in our guest bath. The flange and stoppers at the sink bottom are both brass. Some years back I discovered a powdered cleaner that really helped clean these, called Ba...  Read More

In this exchange between Jesus and Peter, we see a profound truth about the nature of saving faith: knowing who Jesus truly is comes by divine revelation, not human intuition. Peter recognized Jesus a...  Read More

When I was a kid, there was a while that I was the youngest of a handful of cousins. As a result, I didn’t get my way very often, and my word didn’t hold a lot of weight. If I wanted to play a game or...  Read More

There sure are a lot of doors in scripture. Like the door on Noah’s Ark, for letting animals in and keeping flood waters out. A door on Abraham’s tent, through which Sarah heard about her future son. ...  Read More

As a young man, one of my hobbies was Christian apologetics – studying arguments for what we believe. This word apologetics is pulled straight from this passage in 1 Peter. When Peter calls his reader...  Read More