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  • God Desires to Put People to Death?

    God Desires to Put People to Death?

    Do you notice how slow we are and how difficult it is for us to apologize? Have you noticed how quick we are and how easy it is for us to simply defend our actions or justify our beliefs or intentions? I remember, as a child, I did something that earned me punishment. My mother…

  • Open Letter to Dave Gass, a pastor who recently left his faith

    Open Letter to Dave Gass, a pastor who recently left his faith

    Dave, I don’t know if you will read this or not. When I was a teenager, I saw the church in the way that you are describing now. God was a joke as far as I was concerned and I could really care less about religion of any kind. It was a crutch and an…

  • Open Letter to Dave Gass, a pastor who recently left his faith

    Open Letter to Dave Gass, a pastor who recently left his faith

    Dave, I don’t know if you will read this or not. When I was a teenager, I saw the church in the way that you are describing now. God was a joke as far as I was concerned and I could really care less about religion of any kind. It was a crutch and an…

  • On Leaving the Ministry

    In 2007, the Francis A. Schaeffer Institute of Church Leadership Development (FASICLD)reported that “Of the one thousand fifty (1,050 or 100%) pastors we surveyed, every one of them had a close associate or seminary buddy who had left the ministry because of burnout, conflict in their church, or from a moral failure.”[1] I am currently…