Dear Family,
How in God’s Name does Jesus—the life of Jesus—leave the realm of fantasy, religion and myth as a biblical character to one of reality, truth, knowing, and a daily awareness of His impact?
If the Gospel is truly “the Power of God”, and if it is to have its full impact on what that power is directed at—our brains, the Gospel must become something we know, and we must know why
Dear Family,
In this the third installment of “A Holy Corrupted” God, I want to examine both extremes and opposing views about an angry God: “God was never angry” and “God was and still is angry.”
Before I do let me give a bit more time to the question of God Himself ever being “corrupted”.
In the discussions I have had about this and with the questions that
Dear Family,
Last week I introduced this series of new articles entitled “A Holy Corrupted God”. I did not intend to leave you hanging with such an audacious title with no explanation of why God could have been both Holy and Corrupt all at once. However, that’s just what I did! Ooops, my bad!
Anyway, many of you are familiar with my teaching on “The Image of God”.
In that teaching
Dear Family,
So, you saw the article’s title. And you’ve continued reading this far. Well, I must have gotten your attention!
The debate has raged for thousands of years. The confusion over the issue is verifiable and palpable. Many positions have been taken.
What is God’s role in life today?
What, if anything, is God doing currently for us individually and corporately? And is His approach to
Dear Family,
I just read the following email we received the other day.
Hi Mike and Glenn,
I thought I’d share this little experience with you. The other day, I read an article that appeared on one of Glenn Beck’s websites. The article regarded an appearance by Joel Osteen on the Oprah show, where he proclaimed that homosexuality was a sin, but that homosexuals would still go to Heaven.
I didn’t
Dear Family,
“Everything happens for a reason.”
Really?!
“Everything happens for a reason” has got to be one of the most incorrect, mentally lazy, spiritually vapid statements on Planet Earth. It is, however, admittedly a creative way to organize the mess of our lives mentally and emotionally after the fact of what we credit for happening for a reason.
Perhaps I should have massaged