Do You Have an Evil Detector?

BP113 I still remember it as if it happened yesterday. It was a therapy session with a son and his father that occurred 25 years ago. Why do I remember…

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Defying the Gag Order from Hell

BP112 Do You Have A Voice? And they came to Jericho. And as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, the son…

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Maybe You Should Talk with Someone

BP111 Lori Gottlieb, a national advice columnist, wrote a charming, compassionate book entitled, Maybe You Should Talk with Someone. Some of you may have read it. As a psychotherapist, she…

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The Suicide of God’s Girl

BP109 She was only thirteen when she died. By all accounts, she was a happy girl with many friends. She laughed easily and appeared to love life. But death came…

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Innocent Incest?

BP 107 Zach was an only child. He was born in northwestern North Dakota to a father who eked out a living on a hard scrabble farm and a mother…

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To Love is to Obey

BP106 This blog is a collection of random thoughts about how to be close to Jesus . . . Your faith in Jesus must go far beyond knowing the right…

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Dying to Get In

BP105 On a bright summer day, my wife and I drive four hours down to the small southwestern Minnesota town where I had attended middle school and high school. I…

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Darkness Sucks–Light Fills

BP104 This post is going to be concise and pointed. The single theme is that if Jesus is pumped out of our culture, some type of vacuum will be created.…

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