Occupation: Pastor Birth: February 25, 1935
Jesus refers to the poor over and over again. There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that call upon us to respond to the needs of the poor. And yet, I f….
Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and chang….
Because I am not yet living up to what Jesus expects me to be in those red letters in the Bible, I always define myself as somebody who is saved by G….
What we need to affirm is that Jesus is neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Whenever we marry Jesus to a political party, we are committing the sin ….
The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve..
Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in the hands of God..
The Bible makes clear a basic truth that we self-centered humans find difficult to accept, namely, that the natural universe was not created primaril….
It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God..
I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he….
The gospel is not about... pie-in-the-sky when they die. ... It is imperative that the up and coming generation recognize that the biblical Jesus was….
Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical communit….
One of the most startling discoveries of my life was the realization that the Jesus that I love, the Jesus who died for me on Calvary, that Jesus, is….
When in fact we live in a society that makes life hell for gays and lesbians, this community has got to stand up and say, ‘We’re on your side as you ….
Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Som….
Nothing is more dangerous than to live out the will of God in today's contemporary world. It changes your whole monetary lifestyle...Let me put it q….
Conservatives are people who worship at the graves of dead radicals. Stop to think about that. The people who started this country, George Washington….
If we were to set out to establish a religion in polar opposition to the Beatitudes Jesus taught, it would look strikingly similar to the pop Christi….
There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that tell us we must be committed to protecting the poor and the oppressed... There is no concern of Scripture th….
I am saying that there is no salvation apart from Jesus; that’s my evangelical mindset. However, I am not convinced that Jesus only lives in Christia….
Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeles….
When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody e….