I don’t know how many times I heard “His Eye is On the Sparrow” sung by various island ladies at First Baptist Church of Poinciana, a multi-ethnic congregation near Kissimmee where I served as Associate Pastor from 1998-2002. Every Singspiration or 5th Sunday Night Sing, you could always count on at least one (and sometimes…
If You Had Wings, You Wouldn’t Fly United!
If you had wings, if you had wings. If you had wings, had wings, had wings, had wings.” (“If You Had Wings” ride, Walt Disney World, circa 1970’s) As a kid growing up in south central Florida in the 1970’s, it was not uncommon to make a few trips a year to Disney. At least that’s…
The More We’re Like Jesus, the More We’ll Be Hated!
Do you want to be hated, really hated? Then live more like Jesus. No, not the Jesus who has been imagined by popular culture nor the Jesus who has been re-defined by liberal churches. If you want to be hated by your family, friends, co-workers, and the culture-at-large, then start living like the Jesus of…
In Defense of Rev. Leon’s “Political” Easter Sermon
Had I been able to preach at my church’s Easter services this past Resurrection Sunday, I can assure you that the message I delivered would have in no way, shape, or form been comparable to the one that Rev. Luis León delivered at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. And, even if President Obama and his family had attended…
Misappropriating the Cross in Gay Marriage Debate
I support marriage. There, I said it. Unfortunately, I have, like too many other conservatives, appended words like “traditional” or “Biblical” to describe marriage. It’s too late to undo what has already been done and, as Rush Limbaugh has rightly pointed out, by using such language, we have — unwittingly — lost the political debate on the…