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The 2012 election will be remembered in history for many reasons, and I would like to submit one for your consideration. This was the election of evangelical disengagement.  Simply put, we didn’t much matter. Our core kingdom values were trampled on and we sat on our hands.  Regardless of what...

Our third meditation on this text considers the emphasis, “why have you forsaken me?”  If we are honest, this is the version with which we most closely identify.  It is not just the forsakenness, or the fact that it is happening for some reason, or even that it comes from...

We are looking at the different interpretations of this text that come from the way the key words are emphasized.  In the first blog we looked at, “why have you forsaken me?” and we contemplated the purposes of God.  Here we will look at, “why have you forsaken me?”  This...

Have you ever played the game where you take a simple sentence and see how the meaning changes when you change the emphasis?  Start with, “Why did you eat that apple?”  Now read it as, “Why did you eat that apple?” or “Why did you eat that apple?” or “why...

The comment caught me completely off-guard.  I was proudly showing a colleague my new truck; a sleek black Dodge Ram 2500 long bed with a V8 Hemi engine that my kids named Darth Vader.  Instead of the expected words of admiration, however, this friend just retorted, “You are really supporting...

The sixth and final temptation in the way we as leaders deal with money is to play the owner and not the steward. The previous five temptations may be wrapped up and subsumed under this one powerful Christian concept. We are stewards not owners. Our earthly existence can be understood...

The fifth temptation in our role as leaders in relationship to money is to separate our personal spiritual journey from our work as a Christian leader. In our postmodern culture we are encouraged to compartmentalize our private life from our public service. Postmodernism teaches us that It is perfectly acceptable...

The fourth temptation we face as leaders is kingdom building. Loving one master and despising the other calls us to be one-kingdom Christians. Christ’s call on our life is uncompromising and unequivocal. We are to deny ourselves, take up our cross and follow him. There is place for only one...