Hello, HOPE-lovers and welcome to Thankful Thursday! Thanksgiving may have passed, but I believe that each day provides a new opportunity to grow in gratitude. Currently, we are being assaulted with materialism and the insatiable desire for more everywhere we look. So join me as we continue our encounter with thankfulness through the Psalms to discover and develop the practice of being …
THANKFUL THURSDAY: ANOTHER 10 PSALMS
Hello, HOPE-lovers and welcome to Thankful Thursday! The day of Thanksgiving may have passed, but each day provides a new opportunity to grow in gratitude. So, let’s continue our encounter with thankfulness through the Psalms to discover and develop the practice of being thankful. No sooner than dinnertime on Thanksgiving Day were we assaulted with materialism and the insatiable desire for more. …
The (Carl Lentz) View
I feel the need to address a recent controversy that involves me, my family, and my church. First off, I am in NO way a spokesperson for Hillsong church — any of them. And pastor Carl Lentz can handle himself. My main issue in all of this has been the willingness (or even excitement) for some to just “light up …
TRANSFORMATION TUESDAY: 4 Life-Giving Lessons on Homosexuality from a Homosexual Christian
Few things divide more than this topic. The depths and levels of emotion often evoked cause me to tread very lightly, with much humility and respect. This article is by NO means me sermonizing. I am simply attempting to grasp and respond to what Sam Allberry, an identifying Christian homosexual, is conveying to his Synod and the world. I did …
TUESDAY TRANSFORMATION: 4 Ways A Hipster Makes Peace
Hello, hipsters and welcome to the first ever: “Transformation Tuesday!” Today, in pursuit of transformation, we will explore how peace is possible, both personally and globally. I am so excited! This is why HOPE4Hipsters exists because far too many have experienced the pain and punishment of not “fitting the mold.” Let’s take a look at how peace is both …
Politics: Vanquishing A Vehicle For Vitriol
“Post this at all the intersections, dear friends: Lead with your ears, follow up with your tongue, and let anger straggle along in the rear. God’s righteousness doesn’t grow from human anger. So throw all spoiled virtue and cancerous evil in the garbage. In simple humility, let our gardener, God, landscape you with the Word, making a salvation-garden of your …
Transgender Bathrooms Part 2: We’re Missing the Target (Boycott the Boycott)
“By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in …
Transgender Bathrooms Pt 1: We’re Missing the Target (Boycott the Boycott)
“Our job is to focus on our behavior in the church, not to fix sin in the culture.” ~ Levi Lusko “I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people — not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have …
Transcendent Thoughts on Transgenderism
I’ll make this as simple as possible. There are so many verses that address human sexuality and how we should conduct ourselves, but I’ll spare you the time. I’m sure, as time develops, I will also make adjustments to what is my first-ever response to this issue. *** This article is not intended to be pejorative in any sense; it …