Invasion: An incursion; an effort to conquest or plunder.  

Has pornography invaded my life? The answer to that question is more dynamic than one might think. Yes, porn has invaded my life in that it is everywhere; porn is media driven, socially ambiguous and cultural prevalent. As a pastor, I feel as though I am always under constant attack in this manner. Go ahead and do a quick Google search...

Sitting at the stoplight on the corner just down the street from my office, sits a little coffee shop: Bottoms Up Espresso. We have two of these joints in our city. I’ve heard their coffee is pretty good, but that is not what they are known for. They are known for their baristas; baristas who wear nothing but bikinis. Every day as I drive home from the office, I can’t help but to notice their...

Is S&M the new normal? How do we as pastors talk about this in council?

Well... is it? It certainly is becoming more mainstream, normative in media and general cultural conversation. But is it a socially accepted genre or it is still a closeted vice that should stay there? As our culture progresses more and more liberally, you can expect S&M to become more commonplace, and therefore something...

Seriously. How could think for one second that the issue of compromise is an unworthy topic of conversation to discuss in an open format? What are you waiting for: some pastor to screw up so bad it taints the whole of Christendom? For church to get a bad name, or be called irrelevant because they won't talk about the gritty things in life? Really, what's the hold up?  

You're scared....

It's all the rage these days. Pastors who lead their church with showboating excellence, when behind the curtains there exists a fragile and broken leader; afraid to live out who they really are. Unable to confess their junk and be real with their staff, their elders; their congregations, they align themselves squarely in the corners of the Pharisees, the one group Jesus challenged more...

I find it odd that so many people are throwing arguments around on another blog post about masturbation. Within this post, there are arguments pro-masturbation, con-masturbation; some with theological bends and others just opinions. Whatever your stance is on the issue of masturbation, it is something you must wrestle with, especially in light of the varying thoughts and reasonings behind...

James was a man who longed for something deeper in his life. For years he was bound by the trappings of pornography. Porn soaked its way into every aspect of his life: His work, his personal relationships; everything. It literally controlled him. Church was never a part of his context, so when the church I serve at offered up a Sunday devoted to the topic of porn, James decided to attend....

Absolutely. Positively. Broken. Shattered into millions of tiny pieces, strewn about the room. A husband’s confession tore open the heart of his wife, and she lay huddled in an almost embryonic state. A decade long married crumbled at the state of his depravity. If only someone was there to help him along the way. 

This man gave up his fight against porn because no one wanted to help...

“How do I know that God still Loves me? The things that I have done are so wrong I do not think that He can love me any longer?”

There is this beautiful section in the Gospel of John chapter 10 that brings this idea out to a fuller extent. In it Jesus declares that he is both “the gate” and “the Good Shepherd”. What this means is that He is the way to a complete relationship with God (the...

This is a shot in the dark (or not), but if you're a teen (or breathing), you have sexual struggles. You think the opposite sex is smoking hot, and you allow your mind to play games with that smoking hot image in your mind. Pretty soon that little game gives way to a little touch here and there, and BAM; you're off and running. It's a natural response. As visual and tactile learners and...