Is Tolerance the Highest Virtue?

In 2012 America, the worst labels you can hang on someone are intolerant, hateful, narrow minded and judgmental. Now if you disagree with someone’s opinions, beliefs or actions, you are being intolerant. Just ask the president of Chick-fil-A. It seems that tolerance has become the highest virtue. But should it be? Recently, there was an […]

What is Heaven Like? (Part 1 of 2)

For many years, I had a completely wrong view of heaven. I used to think we’d float around in some spiritual dimension, I guess as spirits, because I didn’t really see us having actual bodies like we do now. I imagined this spiritual realm would be very bright. That’s about it. I knew it would […]

Satan’s Most Powerful Weapon

I grew up in Brick, New Jersey, a beach town about sixty miles south of New York and sixty miles east of Philadelphia. Now I live in Fayetteville, Arkansas. I love it here, but I do miss the beach. From my home in Fayetteville, it’s about 800 miles to Panama City Beach, Florida. Let’s say […]

Bobby Petrino and the Lesson of Good Friday

My two favorite college football teams have been rocked by scandals in the past seven months. First, it was Penn State. Jerry Sandusky, a former defensive coordinator, was accused of sexually assaulting young boys. University trustees felt head coach, Joe Paterno, didn’t do enough to stop Sandusky, so they fired him. Joe died of lung […]

The Worst Sin

What’s the worst sin you can think of? Murder? Rape? Abusing a child? Torture? Those are awful sins, but what if there’s a sin that leads to those sins? Wouldn’t that one be even worse? There is a sin that leads to those sins and every other sin. At first glance though, it doesn’t seem […]

Cancer of the Heart

Have you ever heard of someone having heart cancer? I haven’t. Lung cancer. Prostate cancer. Breast cancer. All kinds of cancer, but not heart cancer. In a review of 12,000 autopsies, only seven people were found to have had a cardiac tumor. The Mayo Clinic only sees about one case a year. So it’s a […]

Wired by God For Pleasure

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? “This life doesn’t matter. It’s all about eternity and life in heaven.” Do you agree? I don’t. Not any more anyway. It wasn’t that long ago that I would have agreed with that statement or something like it. Or I would have at least thought I […]