The Plodding Preacher

The Naked Cowboy is a fixture around Times Square, New York.  His chosen means of making money is to appear in public dressed in cowboy hat and boots, a pair of jockey shorts, and a strategically placed guitar that makes it appear from the front that he is naked behind the guitar.  I don't know whether he is a busker who accepts donations for singing or whether he charges tourists for pictures taken with him. Recently, Hillsong, New York, hosted a large women's conference with an "I Love New York" theme.  During the event, a youth pastor from Hillsong dressed up as the Naked Cowboy and appeared on stage.  So . . . during a ladies' event a youth pastor from the biggest megachurch in New York appeared on stage in church wearing nothing but a tight pair of briefs, cowboy hat, boots and guitar.  If that were all there was to the story, it would certainly be enough to cause raised eyebrows.  A Christian women's conference with the equivalent of a male stripp...

Controversial author and former megachurch Pastor Rob Bell has said he feels Jesus Christ has been trivialized in today's society, and people are abandoning the concept of adhering to a single religion. Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/rob-bell-jesus-trivialized-people-moved-beyond-one-single-religion-164571/#gLCpOAgkq8lg0AHD.99 Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/rob-bell-jesus-trivialized-people-moved-beyond-one-single-religion-164571/#qh2YtZ0wHeTYxqxc.99 The Christian Post today posted an interview with Rob Bell in which Bell claimed that Jesus has been trivialized.  He believes that people have moved beyond following just one religion and that some of the best followers of Jesus are actually people who would never call themselves Christians. Well, for once I agree with Rob Bell.  Jesus has been trivialized.  Rob Bell and others like him have created a Jesus of their own imaginations who is absolutely insignificant to real life.  The...

The answer Mike Leake provides might not be the one we want to hear, but it is the truth. DID GOD LOVE ME BECAUSE HE SAW WHAT OTHERS COULDN’T? I hate to admit that I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for the guy who took down Don Zimmer, but it’s true. I always loved watching Pedro Martinez pitch. In an age when most pitchers seemed afraid to use the whole plate, Pedro refused to surrender the inside half. He pitched aggressive, and he pitched inside. Given my penchant for biographies it was a given that I’d buy   Pedro’s autobiography   when Amazon put it on sale for $1.99. I was surprised to learn that many of the coaches in the Dodgers farm system didn’t like Pedro’s stuff. At the moment of decision, when the Dodgers were to decide if Pedro would ever make it to the big leagues, Martinez was standing outside a window listening in. This is what he heard: Each time I heard one of the coaches find a new phrase to describe how I was a scraggly, no-good, never-...

The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

As Christians we are often confronted with the secular maxim that Christianity and Science are incompatible.  We are accused of being anti-science because of our religious views.  Particularly our belief in creation, miracles and the resurrection of Jesus are attacked because they contradict the "facts" of science.  This has never really been about science.  This has been about attacking Christianity.  The proof of my assertion lies in the recent secular position on transgenderism.  Science, specifically biology, tells us that there are two genders.  All humans born with two identical sex chromosomes (XX) are female.  All humans born with two different sex chromosomes (XY) are male.  No amount of hormones or surgery can change the chromosomes inherited at conception.  Hence, biologically, a female is always female and a male is always male.  Opposed to this scientific fact is the way a person feels. So when it suits are soc...

A Liberal who understands what free speech truly means. If you seek the removal of freedoms from an opponent simply on the grounds that they have offended you, you have crossed a line to stand alongside tyrants who imprison, torture and kill on exactly the same justifications … If my offended feelings can justify a travel ban on Donald Trump, I have no moral grounds on which to argue that those offended by feminism, or the fight for transgender rights, or universal suffrage, should not oppress campaigners for those causes. J.K. Rowling