Mike Blogs

Perhaps the OS, ‘the Original Sin’, includes the propensity of men to blame the woman. That happened to the first woman, Eve.   The...

What happened to Bonhoeffer?    Bonhoeffer ran an underground seminary at Finkenwalde from 1935 to 1937 when it was closed by the...

Bonhoeffer’s students put together his book titled Ethics  based on his lectures. Bonhoeffer ran an underground seminary when the...

Let’s go back to where this series of devotionals began. That would be with the person who wrote the book: The Cost of Discipleship,...

Last Thursday night, I went to a Recovery service that is held regularly at the church that we attend in Delray Beach. The Recovery...

Over time, John Wesley added ‘meeting places’, buildings so called rather than ‘churches’ since Wesley did not intend to create another...

Nineteenth Century England was organized around social classes. Distinctions between people and the privileges of class were at their...

In addition to being an evangelist, like George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley also had a gift for leading and organizing...

Why did Whitefield invite Wesley to come to Bristol to complete what Whitefield himself had started with his field preaching? This is a...

John Wesley’s life had caught up with his preaching, His theme was not only salvation by God’s grace through faith, now he also felt it...

John Wesley was at sea, both literally and figuratively. He was returning from Georgia, the ship sailing under the lee of Ireland making...

Susanna Wesley nurtured the sense that God had a mission for John. Step by step John developed a disciple’s understanding that there was...

I said last week that the church needs constant revival and renewal. When a generation adopts their father’s and mother’s renewal,...

How did the German Evangelical Church get so off track? They fell prey to the Devil’s trap as illustrated in Jesus’ temptations in the...

What did Bonhoeffer see as the consequences of ‘cheap grace’?   “We gave away the word and sacraments wholesale, we baptized, confirmed,...

Tis the season…for sales and deals, half-offs and BOGOs. We all like to find a bargain or get something we have been wanting for 25% off....

We marvel at the transformation of a butterfly, at least I do. An adult female butterfly carefully lays eggs on a particular plant. For...

God sent Jesus to pay the penalty for sin and offer us forgiveness…for a purpose. The reason is that sinning destroys our relationship...

Remember when Mr. Miyagi told his karate student Daniel to wax his car. The master gave minimal instructions but insisted on a certain...

We have established, whether you realize it or not, that there are two deaths involved in God’s plan of salvation and the restoration of...