(To read part one, click here.) It must have been over twenty years ago now that I was sitting with my family in church, and the “Praise” band started rocking out. Apparently, they were singing …
What does it mean to minister? While the universal church may not have arrived at a definitive answer, I have some thoughts. First of all, in the New Testament directive that is considered to be …
Some readers may remember the “satanic panic” over secular music in the 1980s. On April 27, 1982, at the California Assembly’s Consumer Protection and Toxics Committee meeting in Sacramento, Calif., panel witness William H. Yarroll …
The contemporary Christian rock group Petra dedicated an entire album to the theme of spiritual warfare when they released This Means War in 1987. With a title track that channeled John Milton’s Paradise Lost in …
Let’s face it, it is absolutely impossible for us to understand an eternal transcendent God and his domain. It is far beyond our comprehension. So, we often use metaphors to make the incomprehensible accessible to …
For those enchanted by the charm of small towns, the afterlife holds a surprising twist. Heaven, New Jerusalem, is portrayed as a bustling, vibrant, and large city in Revelation 21:2, where the Apostle John describes …
I am not a person who listens to a lot of Contemporary Christian Music. For perhaps four years in my late teens/early twenties, I listened exclusively to that genre, primarily reflecting my fresh faith and …
My favorite movie ever since I first saw it in high school is “O Brother Where Art Thou?” I bought the soundtrack, and, like all millennials in their teens, I read every page of the …