Leave your Bible on the bookshelf, where it belongs. At least, that’s the recommendation of the editors at GQ Magazine, who listed the Holy Canon among the “21 Books You Don’t Have to Read.” The reason? The Bible is “repetitive, self-contradictory, sententious, foolish, and even at times ill-intentioned.” That’s quite a list. ...

Part 3. People say the darndest things — sometimes to preachers. This continues a blog series on some of those things that have been said to me over the years. Here’s one:The Bible is a book of fairy tales. A couple of years ago, I was playing “Draw Something” with a young...

Not too long ago, I attended a men’s weekend retreat. One of the leaders mentioned that, years earlier, he had chosen a “life verse” from the Bible that he memorized and lived by. He urged us to choose a life verse, as well. I thought about that for a week....

  Valentine’s Day is the one day of the year that we focus on romantic love, but God speaks of love 24/7. Here are four Bible verses on the nature and practice of love: “Love is patient, love is kind” (I Corinthians 13:4). Widely read at weddings, this famous verse (indeed the...

  I’ve observed a few things in my 17 years as an evangelist. I have seen strong churches and churches that need an overhaul. Without exception, I have met good Christian people in all the places I’ve visited. Occasionally someone will ask, “So how is the state of the church out there? Are...

  The movie Noah recently opened in theaters amid a flood of controversy (see what I did there?). The $130 million epic, starring Russell Crowe as the title character, was directed by Darren Aronofsky, an outspoken atheist whose godlessness led him to “make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking.” Reviews for...

Yesterday at First United Methodist Church in Killeen, TX, I unveiled a new script simply entitled The Word. I wrote it to match Rev. Jeff Miller’s upcoming Advent preaching series with the same title. Actually, to be perfectly honest, I didn’t write the script. It was written long ago by...