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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

How to Ask Forgiveness and Still Come Out on Top

April 24, 2014 by JP 1 Comment

Oh, did I lie about you behind your back? Sorry ’bout that. Slander your family name? Curse your children’s lineage? My bad. Expose your insecurities? Ridicule your flaws? Mock your existence? Sorry you took that the wrong way. Lighten up. Didn’t mean it. Just kidding. I’m sorry you got your feelings hurt. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, SORRY. […]

Filed Under: Asking forgiveness, Conflict Resolution, Discipleship, Featured Tagged With: ask forgiveness, cats, dogs, how to ask forgiveness, sorry, The Fools

Five Ways to Make Your Wife Happy (WOMEN DO NOT READ!)

April 21, 2014 by JP 4 Comments

I’m going to start off this post by doing something unusual. I’m going to ask, if you’re a female reader, that you stop reading this one. Of course, I can’t stop you, and I greatly appreciate your readership of this blog. But for your husband’s sake in winning with your love alone (trust me, this will mean […]

Filed Under: Featured, Marriage Tagged With: compliments, flowers, marriage, pornography, purity, The Fools, ways to make your wife happy

How to Turn Your Spouse From a Fire-Breathing, Evil Monster Into a Regular Person

April 16, 2014 by JP 1 Comment

I’m sure we’ve all seen the cliche. A couple screaming at each other — red-faced and angry, insults hurled in every direction, and one turns into a fire-breathing, evil monster and consumes the other. Or wait. A peaceful meal around the table, chatting over half sandwiches and pleasantries, a thinly-veiled accusation is suggested along with grey […]

Filed Under: Asking forgiveness, Conflict Resolution, Discipleship, Featured, Marriage Tagged With: ask forgiveness, conflict resolution, evil monsters, relationship advice, The Fools

The Discipline of Slowly Starving in America

April 12, 2014 by JP 4 Comments

I’ve come to believe the church in America is starving. Not for bread. Not for money. We have wafers for the first and checkbooks for the second, though I’m sure we could use more. Not for the Word of God. There’s a Bible on every shelf. No, we’re starving for a simpler thing that eludes us — […]

Filed Under: Discipleship, Featured Tagged With: christian blog, Discipline, spiritual growth, The Fools

What No One’s Saying About a Fall From Church Leadership

April 12, 2014 by JP 4 Comments

I’ve taken a chance to sit back, pray, and think about this. I’ve scoured many commentaries of what others have to say. And I’ve decided there’s more. More to say. Recently, a prominent pastor of a large church confessed to a “moral failure” and resigned his position. There has been, understandably, a ground swell of hurt congregants, shocked Christians, […]

Filed Under: Featured, Pastors Tagged With: adultery, church leadership, fallen pastor, falling into sin, pastors, porn addiction, 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

The Forbidden Fruit: An Apple…or Welch’s Grape Juice?

March 10, 2014 by JP 10 Comments

Today, I’m going to blow your mind. Actually, I’m going to take on one of the most deeply rooted, commonly accepted social standards in the Christian faith. My goal is to blow your mind. I will probably succeed in sincerely offending you. I am not trying to offend. I don’t want to. But it’s likely unavoidable […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: christian blog, communion, communion wine, The Fools

What Your Kid Thinks of Church

March 3, 2014 by JP 5 Comments

  The lights lower. The video screen darkens and people hurry to their seats. It’s time for church. A man steps to the podium and begins. Man: Blah, blah, blah — blah, blah, blah — of the blah, and the blah, and the blah. Aa-blah. What?? You’ve come to church for years. But you’ve probably never imagined […]

Filed Under: Featured, Funny, Raising a Fool Tagged With: kid view of church, kids in church, The Fools

If I Talked to My Wife Like the Church Liturgy Talks to God

February 17, 2014 by JP 14 Comments

Me: Enter the family room with excitement and the living room with thanks! Wife: Ok… Me: Most beautiful and ever loving wife, we are gathered here today to have a conversation. In this conversation our hearts will be opened and all our communications known, and from each other no secrets hid. Hear the thoughts of […]

Filed Under: Conflict Resolution, Featured, Funny, Marriage Tagged With: church liturgy, conversation with my wife, high church, high church vs. low church, The Fools, traditional church services

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