“You cannot serve both God and Money.” (Luke 16:13) It’s income tax time – a season each year that sort of sneaks up on us in January as we begin to receive our W-2’s or 1099’s. The truth is we shouldn’t just take a financial accounting of our last year; we need to take a spiritual accounting, too. What did we do last year for the Lord with all that money and talent he gave us? We often think that God doesn’t care a lot about money. After […]

“All that the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will by no means cast out.” (John 6:37) Now that’s a promise from the Lord that we should never forget. Once we come to know the Lord as our personal savior, we enter into a relationship through which we can count on him, no matter what! Easier said than done, huh? For the last several years, I’ve felt a call on my life. In a way, it’s exciting as most […]

“Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” (2 Timothy 2:15) Many of you know that I work in a political arena so I am used to the name-calling that is often associated with my profession. As a Christian, particularly an evangelical Christian, I have also been subjected to a lot of labels over the years – fanatic, bible-toting believer, zealot, religious right, homophobe – the list is growing. This is familiar territory […]

“O wretched man that I am!” (Romans 7:24) I’ve learned the hard way that one of the chapters I need to read more frequently in the Bible is Romans 7 where the Apostle Paul declares that he is as wretched as they come. It’s a brutally honest declaration. Interestingly, he wrote it years after his Damascus Road salvation experience with Jesus! I don’t think many of us see ourselves the way the Apostle Paul saw himself when he wrote this letter to the Church at Rome. The truth […]