This book is all about Hell. Well, technically it is also about flaming heretics. But it is mostly about Hell. Because frankly, if you do not fear God, you should fear Hell. If you do not feel guilt, well, that makes you a sociopath—and sociopaths go to Hell too. Perhaps mercifully, you can read the contents of this sarcastic (but also sincerely concerned) narrative and have your conscience awakened, or in some cases, resurrected. Hell is real, and it's found at the end of a long slippery ...

Grace--the enabling, transforming power of God. We name our schools, our cathedrals, our hospitals and our children after it. We sometimes say it when we eat and say we are under it while we sin. We equate it with some kind of spiritual life-support for dying churches, dying people and empty offering plates. We use this term to link all that seems spiritual in religion with all that is pathetic. It's time to take off the stained-glass goggles and see grace for what it really is. It is the ...

It was a leap of faith on my part when I agreed to teach the Book of Job in our church’s Bible School. Then, somewhere in the midst of my studies, a chain reaction began to take place of newly revealed and illuminated truths that harmonized with the rest of Scripture. These truths were not unknown, nor do I claim exclusive knowledge of God or His Word, but the Book of Job shed light on truths in such a way as to provoke great excitement in me. I laughed; I cried; I rejoiced; I prayed in th...