You, I am sure, have heard 👂more than once the old saying: “STICKS AND STONES CAN BREAK MY BONES, BUT NAMES CAN NEVER HURT ME.” Really? I fear that we speak those words too glibly, too casually, and too rhythmically at times. There is nothing trite or trivial about someone being the target of stick hurling […]
Early in my seminary days we were assigned one entire summer as interns to minister and learn ministry at the side of a superb, visionary servant of God by the name of Pastor Paul Veenstra in the Chula Vista Christian Reformed Church of Chula Vista California. It was an awesome summer of being discipled by […]
THE BAR EXPEDITION It was too late now. I was on the way. No matter that this was Pastor Skunkhollow’s idea, I was guilty of complicity in the endeavor. That means I was an accomplice, and the only way to get that off my ecclesiastical rap sheet was for him to stop the car and […]
There are many churches and pastors who talk a lot about church growth these days. What often do they mean? They are referring to CHURCH GROWTH by the BIG BANG THEORY. You know the EVOLUTIONARY BIG BANG THEORY don’t you? Well, evolutionists tell us that matter is eternal, and at a certain point, matter got […]
God has His mighty warriors across the world in the global conflict against the anti-Christ and anti-Christian powers of darkness. The warfare is becoming ever fiercer, and as it does, I sense that the army of the Lord Jesus Christ is ever being heightened by the Holy Spirit in its bravery for and loyalty to […]