Actually doing what James suggests about the Bible, and a bit about anger

James 1:19-27 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; 20 for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
21 Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is [...]

Be Encouraged and Be Bold

I’ve let the past month be discouraging to me as a believer. In Canada, I can’t pinpoint any particular turning point when our culture turned on Christians. It was about five years ago that I got screamed at by a cowboy for leading prayer in the locker room at a PBR in Hamilton, Ontario and [...]

You Don’t Give up Being a Cowboy by Becoming a Christian

James Sermon 7
James 3: 12-18 13 Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. 15 This is not the wisdom [...]

God’s Will in the Life and Death of Colton Terry

The older I get, the more I feel like a parent cringing at some of the choices you see these cowboys make that you know are going to hinder their careers or hurt them in some way you’d like to protect them from.
Most often you can’t and just have to be there for them should [...]

Sheriff Andy and the Apostle Paul on Respect

Andy Griffith as Sheriff Andy Taylor: When you’re a lawman and you’re dealing with people, you do a whole lot better if you go not so much by the book but by the heart.”
I don’t carry a gun because I don’t want the people of Mayberry to fear a gun. I’d rather they would respect [...]

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