4 Ways to Say No as a Pastor— Often the message behind the request of your presence, attention and action is affirmation. There have been times when I have been asked to be apart of something that really didn’t need my attention but the one asking needed both affirmation that they were doing a good thing for the kingdom and some council to help them get what they wanted to get done accomplished.
7 Good Reasons to Stop Looking at Porn Right Now—If you are consumed with pornography and unwilling to put this sin to death, you have every reason to be concerned with the state of your soul. God promises that if he has saved us we will gain new passions and new affections. We will have not only the ability but also the desire to replace sin with holiness, to replace immorality with sexual purity. If you have no sorrow for sin, if you have no real desire for victory, if time and again you recklessly choose your sin over your Savior, you need to ask yourself this: Do I love pornography enough to go to hell for it?
Primer on Reading the Bible—Bible study can fan the flames of our love for Jesus or drown it in a sea of knowledge. Studying the Bible with Jesus is life-changing. Studying the Bible without him is an exercise in intellectual pride.
Americans Love Soccer; They Just Don’t Get It—On June 26, 1969, El Salvador won a decisive third game against Honduras in the 1970 World Cup qualifying round, triggering La guerra del futbol. (That’s “soccer war,” for those of you with season tickets to Soldier Field.) The countries had been on the brink of hostilities over land and immigration issues, and that 3-2 game in Mexico City was the last straw.
