"Jesus Wept." That one is in there. John 11:35. But "Jesus was keeled over, laughing" is not there. And oh how I wish it was. I thought about this further this weekend during Jim's Easter message.

I don't believe in coincidence. And I find it interesting that during the same perdiod of time the Washington State Legislature passes a bill to extend 170 new rights to same-sex couples, we are hitting Romans 1:24-32. Could God be instructing us at to what we ought to believe about this issue at the very time it parades through the

Do you ever doubt your salvation? Do you ever wonder, "Am I real or am I just going through the motions?--am I really born again?" I do. It may not be comforting to you for you to hear a pastor say that.

In July, Lord willing, we'll be having our fourth child. We know a few families with four kids, and one of them seems to have an incident almost weekly with other people's "dismay" over the sheer quantinity of thier children--as if they lived too close to a stork farm or something. Kids come via something much better than storks...

In this video that someone has put together, you can hear John Piper talk about one of the fundamental differences between the real gospel and the gospel so common to our day that he hates.