This article first appeared at Charismanews.com you can read it here Serious giants are facing off against the American church at this moment. Abortion has claimed more than 50 million casualties and counting. Terrorism is no longer isolated to foreign fields. Secularism is advancing through society and infiltrating the sanctuary, and radical agendas no longer[…]
Jesus said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no offenses should come” (Luke 17:1). The question is not wether or not you will be offended but what you do when you are. In this message Daniel K Norris shares how we tend to build pretty picket fences around our offense as a defense and how decisions[…]
Like Peter stepping out of the boat, you stepped out of the comfortable, familiar surroundings of what you had always known, into the chaotic, frightening waves of the unknown. It might have been a failed venture you thought was worth the risk. Maybe it was believing against reason that you’d see a miracle where[…]
What the Church Can Learn From Starbucks’ Bold Stance on Gay Marriage This is a reprint of my article that is posted with CharismaNews.com This past week during Starbucks’ annual shareholders meeting CEO Howard Shultz shut down an investor, who asked if the company’s support of a gay marriage initiative in Washington state was to blame for[…]
Reading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s The Cost of Discipleship while listening to some Gospel of Grace teaching is a fun exercise. The contrast between the two is fascinating! Each of Bonhoeffer’s words seem at home with Christ’s words and are so relevant for today. The grace teaching, though it contained some powerful truths, constantly found itself at odds[…]
There is a strange movement sweeping through the church at this very moment. Thousands are choosing to leave their Sunday best at home opting instead for much, much less – in fact they are wearing nothing at all. Unthinkable? I would have thought so myself, until an individual that I respected showed up at church[…]
Jenna and I kicked off our Christmas holiday with a date night at the American Airlines center for the TransSiberian Orchestra. Nothing puts one in the mood for Christmas quite like classic carols rocked out to slashing guitars, electric violins, high-energy lighting and enough pyro to make a redneck jealous. Santa was truly rocking this[…]
T’was two months before Christmas, I was on top of the house Stringing twinkling lights, garland, and a wreath made by my spouse The Neighbors were ticked, but I didn’t care Because I knew Christmas, would soon be there Inside Jenna had decorated with gold, silver, green and red While the smell of cinnamon and[…]
Humanity has been obsessed with “The End” ever since there was a “Beginning”. I remember my first brush with “Doomsday Hysteria” in 1988. A best-selling book had the church world prepping for the rapture because someone had found 88 Reasons For Christ’s Return In 1988. ’88 came and went along with leg-warmers, shoulder-pads, parachute pants[…]
Our President may have announced to the world that America is no longer a Christian nation yet our response to this weeks national tragedy says otherwise. When the storms swirl overhead, when the earth moves from under your feet… or when you have to deal with the loss of 20 beautiful kids and 7 of[…]