No doubt, Jesus does not want us in a toxic church situation. Your heart will tell you when to leave. Two weeks ago I shared some practical guidelines on how to leave a church gracefully. I wrote this because I hear so many stories about people storming out of churches because their feelings got hurt. But an astute reader also […]

Peace Pound (Vitaly Vitorsky)           Americans are blessed in so many ways, and we should be the most thankful people on earth. But we quickly show our ingratitude when our Internet signal gets weak or when our iTunes download takes too long. Our first-world "problems" are pitiful. We complain of cramped seating on planes when only […]

Why are so many disturbed young men in the United States carrying out massacres? (iStock photo)           Just one day before a crazed young gunman killed nine people in Oregon last week, police arrested four males who planned to go on a bloody rampage at their high school in central California. Fortunately those four juveniles are […]

When it comes to immigrants, Donald Trump simply doesn't get it. (Reuters file photo)     This week I preached at a pastors' conference in Brookings, South Dakota. Before I arrived I assumed the sponsoring church, Holy Life Tabernacle, would be a mostly white congregation, since South Dakota is 82 percent white. But, when I walked into the Sunday service, […]