Have you ever been told that the Bible is perfect and free from all errors? In fact, maybe you were told that you had to believe in the Bible like that in order to be a Christian or to follow Jesus. This view of the Bible is called "inerrancy."

If you hold this view of Scripture, or were raised wit...

When I was a Lead Pastor, someone in our congregation emailed to ask us to consider dropping a worship song that we regularly did in our services. You may be wondering what type of progressive hippie worship song we'd introduced to warrant such a response. Something with a djembe, presumably. A numb...

He finished the sermon first.

One day after Mica Miller was found dead in a North Carolina state park, her husband stood in the pulpit at Solid Rock Church and preached. Then, at the very end, he told the congregation his wife was gone and that she had done it to herself. A whole sermon, and the de...

"Do you love God the most?"

My daughter, sitting next to me in the passenger seat, asked me this question as I drove her to a recent practice. An automatic answer came to mind after decades of trying to be a good Christian. Everyone knows you love God first. Yet something told me not to give the an...

The singing had already started inside, but a handful of people stayed out in the lobby with me, in no particular hurry to join it. I was teaching at a church in Florida this weekend, and I'd been greeting people as they arrived. These few weren't heading in. One of them mentioned they didn't think ...

I grew up being told to fear the liberal agenda. The idea was that if I wasn't properly guarded, I would eventually become desensitized to homosexuality, or would wake up one day and realize I no longer had any morals. Whenever a TV show or movie would depict any type of queer affection, the reactio...

Last week, our online community had its monthly video chat. We were discussing the recent change in the gender gap for religious engagement between men and women, which I wrote about in "The Gender Gap Closed. Check the Fine Print." The trend we were discussing is that young women are less engaged i...

The first Easter sermon was delivered by women, and the men who heard it decided it was nonsense.

Luke doesn't soften this. He tells us the women came back from the tomb with the news that would become the center of everything Christians believe today, and "the story sounded like nonsense to the m...

We often refer to the strange act of boiling frogs to describe how to change something slowly. The idea referenced is that you can boil a frog as long as you do it slowly rather than all at once. Like many things I learned as a kid, this one doesn't hold up. Real frogs become increasingly agitated a...

A handful of baseball players recently wrote Bible verses on their hats. And I think it was the exact opposite of what Jesus would have wanted them to do. Let me tell you why.

The San Francisco Giants recently celebrated Pride Night at the stadium. Like many other celebration days (Mother's Day, Me...