A New Species

A New Species

The night of my conversion, as I walked out of the building where the church service I had just attended was held and looked out at the familiar skyline of Miami, Florida, I uttered a statement from my newly born-again lips: “Everything looks new.” I had no knowledge...
The Cure for False Conversion: Repentance

The Cure for False Conversion: Repentance

Recently, it happened again. Eating a meal with a fellow pastor, I mentioned my belief that the most important theological issue facing the Church today is that of false conversion. The pastor’s reaction was classic. He just looked at me with a blank stare as if to...
Are You Kidding? Covenant Church Membership

Are You Kidding? Covenant Church Membership

Recently, and with little forethought, a word fell out my lips when speaking with a friend. What was this word that unguardedly fell from my lips? It was covenant and I was using it, not in the traditional sense of those covenants God has made with the human race and...
Counseling or Counselor?

Counseling or Counselor?

There’s far too much counseling going on in the church today.   I don’t mean there is not a place for church pastors and elders to provide counsel when appropriate for those church members who need it. That is certainly an important part of pastoral ministry and...
The Great Offense

The Great Offense

“And he said, ‘This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.’ After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him” John 6:65-66 The sixth chapter of John contains an in-depth teaching of the Lord...