The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.

Wherever you have people, you have factions and disagreements and personality conflicts.

When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.

While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.

We sometimes idealize the early church and want our churches to go back to the simple, old ways. We need to carefully read the history. Harmony takes work.