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Chapter 4: Jim Bakker, Billy Graham, And A Sinking Man–From the new book Love Like Jesus: How Jesus Loved People (and how you can love like Jesus)

Today’s post is from my new book Love Like Jesus: How Jesus Loved People (and how you can love like Jesus). Last Saturday we posted Chapter 3: How Not To Become A Christian Doormat. Love Like Jesus is… Read More

Orlando Shooting: The Hard Part Most Are Missing

I just want to share a few thoughts on the Orlando Shooting. Thought number three in particular is the most difficult and it applies to you, and to me. 1) It’s a horrible tragedy. This was the deadliest mass shooting… Read More

Ray Charles’s Daughter Sheila Raye Charles: Things I Heard In Church

I heard Ray Charles’s Daughter Sheila Raye Charles speak at our church Tuesday night, after the Jesus Table. She told her story of sexual abuse,

Monty Williams’s Words At His Wife’s Memorial Service

Wise Words Last Tuesday, in Oklahoma City, a car crossed the centerline and collided head on with the vehicle of Ingrid Williams, the wife of Monty Williams, an assistant coach for the OKC Thunder and former head coach… Read More

Things I Heard In Church: This amazing quote about Joseph’s brothers’ brutal cruelty

Things I Heard In Church: This amazing quote about the way Joseph responded to the brutal cruelty shown to him by his brothers.

Myra Thompson, a relative of one of the Charleston shooting victims said this:

Myra Thompson, a relative of one of the Charleston shooting victims: “I forgive him and my family forgives him. But we would like him to take this opportunity to repent” and “give your life to the one who… Read More

9 People Murdered And The 1 Thing That Can Make A Difference

If You’re A Christian There Was A Death In Your Family Wednesday Night Witnesses said the gunman specifically asked for the church’s well-known pastor, the Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney, who was also a state senator, and sat next… Read More

Why You Can’t Add Jesus To Your Life

The Night Jesus Came To Eva I just read an amazing story from Eric Metaxas‘s excellent book Miracles. It’s a story about a woman named Eva Meyer, the daughter of a brilliant physicist, Dr. C.J. Meyer. Dr. Meyer… Read More

Who Did He Think He Was?

Who Did He Think He Was? I heard this story recently about a guy who ran a construction company. He was very successful and not surprisingly, he was industrious too. And when he drove he was often on his… Read More

How One Mistake On Twitter Destroyed A Woman’s Life (And what we can learn from it)

Morbid Fascination Last night (at the time of this writing) I read this very insightful article in the New York Times. I was so morbidly fascinated I just couldn’t put it down. It was about a woman traveling from New… Read More

Extreme Forgiveness

A thirty-something friend of mine, Harold Cunningham, recently asked me about a problem he had. He shared this in confidence but after he told me what he did, I found it to be so radical, I asked his permission to… Read More

Firefighter Kills Mother and Unborn Son in Head-on: What Happened Afterwards is Astounding

In Dacula, Georgia a twenty-year old firefighter named Matthew Swatzell just finished a 24 hour shift. While he was driving home that morning he fell asleep at the wheel, crossed the center line, and drove head-on into an… Read More

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