He’s so cool! He’s is really a cool dude! He is a very cool customer. I like him, he’s cool! Just be cool! What a cool reception that was! Just cool down now! He’s worth a cool million. He has a really cool sports car! We had a really cool time at the party! He […]
It is intriguing how modern day religious slanguage so often finds its way from the secular world into the sacred world. The modern church so often reflects the culture rather than the modern culture reflects the church. Conformity has gone the wrong way! Or as Eric Mascall points out so rightly: “WHAT WE NEED IS […]
No pooch likes being firmly or scoldingly spoken to with the words, “Bad Doggie.” Dogs, like humans, much prefer being soothed with, “Good Doggie,” even though Rover here has chewed a hole in the rug, and knocked over and smashed a table vase that was a keepsake from grandma. I mean what dog wouldn’t prefer […]
Over the past many months, the Holy Spirit has strongly impressed upon me five modern expletives that are rampant in our modern world, in American society, and even in the modern church. They have not been positive impressions, but rather, they have been very heavy, negative impressions from the Lord that would not let me […]
If the people of the world really thrill to what is happening to them or around them, they often exclaim with excitement, “Oh My God.” Have you noticed? How could you not? It is one of the most common mantras strangely enough in the unbelieving and God-ignoring society in this country. I can only speak […]
A strange new Americanism some time ago arrived on the scene in our society which from the very first time I heard it, I found very frustrating and irritating. At first I did not know why there was that dis-ease in my spirit when I heard it. I now hear it over and over again […]