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Fake Love, Fake War: Why So Many Men Are Addicted to Internet Porn and Video...
Fake Love, Fake War: Why So Many Men Are Addicted to Internet Porn and Video Games from Desiring God Blog by Russell Moore You know the guy I’m talking about. He spends hours into the night playing...
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Having the Devil of a Time….
Shel – At Mercy Church we just finished a 3-part sermon on Sharing Jesus – Entering the Warzone. Just came across this article from renowned Biblical scholar Ben Witherington III. Having the Devil of...
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Love America – But Don’t Worship It – Speak the Truth of Jesus to It
Shel Boese / Shelby Boese – I have spoken often saying: “I love America (The U.S.) – but I love Jesus more” at Mercy Church. I am always concerned with the Civil Religion version of Jesus in America....
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Remember – But Don’t Be Paralyzed!
If you “remember” without asking what positive change did you make – you’re giving the past too much power. How have you grown and learned from the evil of 9/11? Did you become like that which you...
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Feminism Introduction for Dummies
If you want a great introduction to foundational feminism this talk by Joan Chittister will knock your socks off. You might find out you agree with a majority of what she is saying. Joan Chittister...
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Mental Health Care is the Real Issue – Gun Control is a Partisan Distraction
My thoughts on the “Gun Control for citizens only” meme run thus: I believe in gun control and that centralization of more power in larger entities is also a recipe of bigger evil. I am a little...
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What Tempts Us…
Barna’s New Research Explores the Changing Shape of Temptation from Your Journey Blog by Gary Rohrmayer January 4, 2013 – It’s that time again—the end of one year and the beginning of another—when...
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From Stand Firm: The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking
http://www.standfirminfaith.com/?/sf/page/30165 The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking THIRTEEN years ago, researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum began the grim task of documenting...
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Some Advice for Anybody Having an Extra-Marital Affair
Some Advice for Anybody Having an Extra-Marital Affair It happens and it really stinks. You’ve been married for years and suddenly you find yourself attracted to somebody else. Maybe he or she works...
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Mental Illness – Comfort With these Words
The pastor who was my main ministry mentor and I served on his staff team for years lost his son to suicide some years ago. He writes from a place of experience and also a free-will view of creation....
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Surfing for God: Discovering the Divine Desire Beneath Sexual Struggle, asks...
A GREAT article: http://prismmagazine.org/living-out-of-wholeness-michael-john-cusick/ . If you have never heard any of my sermon’s on sex, sexuality, porn, etc. this is one great interview and I...
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Holocaust Center in Toronto
Took the kids to the Holocaust Centre (http://holocaustcentre.com/) for part of our "Friday adventure/learning day". With the new rise of antisemitism and the murderous purges of Christians in the...
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Gossip
Shel: The sin of Gossip is basically talking about someone (generally anything not building up) without them in the room/conversation. We can unintentionally create gossip cultures when we take on the...
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Osheta (and TC) on the Shooting in an AME Church
https://oshetablogs.wordpress.com/2015/06/18/what-i-need-you-say-in-response-to-the-shooting-in-charleston/ What I Need You to Say in Response to the Shooting in Charleston "I almost wrote this post...
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Dan Betzer
I grew up listening to Dan Betzer's Dan and Louie Bible stories. Loved it. Today I looked up Dan's church, First Assembly of God in Fort Meyers, FL, being that I am now literally up the road a little...
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Ashely Madison
Some good follow up from Ed Stetzer and Dick Hardy: Ed Stetzer stimulated a bunch of chatter in the faith community and the press last week. I caught up with him on Saturday to get his take on the...
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International Day of Prayer for Persecuted Church Nov 1st and 8th
IDOP Video 2015 from IDOP on Vimeo.Social Top SharingTweet Share on Tumblr
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Micah J Murray: We Need to Talk About Sexual Assault
We Need to Talk About Sexual Assault by Micah Murray. Shel here. Micah's post is a hard but important read. Social Top SharingTweet Share on Tumblr
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Sex and the Body
Embracing not only God's love for all he has created, but at the most immediate level, also the universality of sin is how we learn to love one another outrageously. The denial of the universality of...
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#AltonSterling #PhilandoCastile #Dallas
Some of my thoughts on the recent violence... I cannot even begin to know what solidarity means with the African American community when simply getting into your car to go somewhere could mean death...
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