Straight answers to random questions.
Apparently the revival that now appears to be spreading beyond the Asbury University campus. With videos going viral on TikTok and Instagram some of the mainstream media outlets like the Washington Examiner and NBC are also taking note. I watch this with great interest for several reasons: I have been praying for revival for […]
It’s been almost a week now, and the revival that began in the Asbury College Chapel continues to burn on, or at least so it would seem. As usual there are those on social media including Christian organizations, and publications that are beginning to take note, with various prognostications of what it might mean. Something […]
I’ve been reading a book called “Building a Discipling Culture” by Mike Breen, so most of this post can be attributed to his ideas being processed in my head. The statement he makes in the first chapter that caught my attention and got me going on this is: “If you make disciples, you always get […]
It will soon be two years since we first began to hear of a “novel virus” that could threaten to devastate the world’s population. From early in 2020 we have been bombarded with information, as our lives have been disrupted by a myriad of sometimes conflicting instructions on how best to protect ourselves and others […]
I grew up on a small farm in rural Canada. I remember one spring day, I was maybe 12 or 13 years old, driving a tractor out on the back forty, I believe we had just finished putting in the seed, and I was tasked with harrowing it in. In this part of the country […]
Some might say the answer to that question is, “when it starts raining”, but I beg to differ. Let me back up a little, okay maybe a lot. We gotta go back to the story of Noah and the great flood in Genesis 6 and 7. Whether you believe this is an actual historical account, […]
This is a great question, and is related to that gnarly conundrum some theologians have labeled the problem of pain. The question is essentially this: How can a God, who claims to be loving, allow his creation to suffer? For those who may be looking for the long answer to this question, one of the […]
I would begin with the disclaimer that I am not a medical doctor, or any kind of doctor for that matter. While that may limit the amount of authority I bring to this question, it does not limit my ability to read and research and pass on information that I found helpful in assessing a […]
There was a time in American politics when left and right made something of an effort to move to the middle mostly because the general population tended to avoid extremes. It would appear that the middle ground where left and right can carry on a civil discussion and resolve to work together for the common […]