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The Secret to Healing Division in a Church, Community, or Family

March 9, 2015 by JP 11 Comments

Division is a cancer in a community, church, or family. And you need to know exactly how to stop it. — I was only a child. My family was fighting as every family does. Charged words were yelled. Doors slammed. Walls, both physical and unseen, went up in a family that had been united. How many of us have experienced this same crushing effect in our […]

Filed Under: Asking forgiveness, Conflict Resolution, Discipleship, Featured, Social Issues

How to Make Her Love Being a Woman

February 23, 2015 by JP 9 Comments

(This is Part 2 in a series about empowering femininity. Part 1 is “Woman of God, Will You Lead the Church?“) One of my deep desires is to empower women and encourage them to come alive in their natures as women. This post is about how to do that. — A prominent guitarist was desperate to meet […]

Filed Under: Featured, Pastors, Social Issues

Woman of God, Will You Lead the Church?

February 16, 2015 by JP 4 Comments

The night is darkest before the dawn. This is a universal metaphor for hope. The metaphor loses its meaning, however, if while waiting the people become enamored with the night, the light of the moon’s reflection lulling them with a sickly, pale sort of illumination, a shadow hiding the beauty present there rather than illumining […]

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Why Now is the Best Time to Be a Reverse Racist

November 24, 2014 by JP Leave a Comment

America may well turn upside down in the wake of the announcement that Officer Wilson will not be indicted by a grand jury for the death of Michael Brown. And a lot of people feel powerless. It’s time for a radical choice, one in which you can make a difference. It isn’t found on a […]

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Thanks for the PB&J’s Mom, Now Get a Real Job!

November 3, 2014 by JP Leave a Comment

This weekend, President Obama made some startling statements about stay-at-home moms. And frankly, I’m pissed. Full disclosure here of why: I’m not a mom. I don’t stay at home. I have NO idea what I’m talking about. I mean, really, all I have in this is I’ve found after six long years that the president and I […]

Filed Under: Featured, Social Issues Tagged With: Little Fools, mom, moms, stay-at-home mom

Why You Have To Be Hated To Be a Christian

May 19, 2014 by JP 1 Comment

Your parents wanted to make you a clone of them. Didn’t take. You rebelled. Your pastor wanted to make you a Jesus Freak. Didn’t work. Toned that down. You fought and fought to carve yourself into a self-made man (or woman). But you couldn’t drop one bad habit of biting your fingernails. Your culture didn’t […]

Filed Under: Discipleship, Featured, Social Issues Tagged With: hated Christian, holiness of God, liberal Christian

Is the Church Becoming Worldly?

April 28, 2014 by JP 5 Comments

(I love the church. Deeply. But I also believe we need to be alert to keep the church from being influenced by the culture. This is a warning.) A few years ago, a person close to me applied for a head worship position over a large church ministry. He was asked to send in a video […]

Filed Under: Featured, Social Issues Tagged With: American Idol, celebrity pastor, choosing church leaders, pastors, The Fools

When the World’s Vision Turns to Us

March 27, 2014 by JP 2 Comments

At 9:30 Saturday morning, I’ll lace up my shoes and walk. I probably won’t say a word. I’ll gaze up a bridge at gorgeous surroundings — sun, clouds, and shimmering water — at the breathtaking horizon that greets me, I’ll place a tread-worn Adidas running shoe on a strip of pavement, and I’ll walk. It’s […]

Filed Under: Featured, Social Issues Tagged With: abortion, adoption, christian blog, The Fools, world vision

Christ or Culture?

November 15, 2013 by R. Daniel 1 Comment

Christ or Culture? Which do you want to keep? I have been born completely comfortable with change. My whole generation is this way. As human beings we are designed to hate change, but change for my generation has always brought comfort, and entertainment. With each increment of new technological advancement our lives have gotten easier, […]

Filed Under: Discipleship, Featured, Social Issues Tagged With: bad traditions, Christ, culture, The Fools, traditional church

The Absinthe of Your Faith

October 31, 2013 by R. Daniel 2 Comments

It was 4 AM and I hadn’t slept all night. I was trying to lie on hospital benches with ill-placed arm rests, and finding them wedged in uncomfortable places. My brother John-Peter’s first child had just been born and while everyone else had left, I wanted to stay to celebrate the birth of a son with […]

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