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THE WATERS ARE RILED The Supreme Court decision concerning the overthrow of Roe versus Wade is riling the media waters, and pro-choice and pro-abortion people are now feeling the frustrations pro-life people have felt for years. How can this decision be changed? How can my disagreement be registered? How can this institution feel my wrath…

WELCOMING THE STRANGER BY DEVELOPING FOUR ATTITUDES. By Randy Nabors Recently I was asked to lead a seminar on “Welcoming the Stranger.” It helped to me to think about some things the Bible teaches about the subject. One of the things that came to mind was the importance of two words; “culture,” and “attitude.” These…

WHY SHOULD I JOIN A NETWORK? We are discussing the value of networks for church planters and pastors. Obviously, there are many successful pastors who are independent, and have done well in ministry without being part of a larger group. Yet for some, a network can be both life giving and lifesaving. We are not…

100 Lessons for Life (Most of which I’m still learning) by Randy Nabors LIFE LESSONS: 1. IF YOU HAVE TO WALK BACKWARDS, LOOK FIRST. ALWAYS CHECK YOUR MIRRORS BEFORE YOU VEER OR CHANGE LANES. 2. IF YOU DON’T LOOK WHERE YOU ARE GOING THE THINGS IN YOUR WAY ARE NOT LIKELY TO GET OUT OF…

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND SIN by Randy Nabors (We do invite commentary on our blogs but ask that comments be posted to our Facebook page where we can better respond.) This is not to imply that General Assembly of the PCA was sinful, although I don’t know about everybody and everything that happened. GA made…

SOME COMMENTS ON THE PANIC INDUCED BY CRITICAL RACE THEORY, BY RANDY NABORS. As I read about several large denominations coming together for their annual meeting (one of which I am a part) I am hearing concern particularly about Critical Race Theory or CRT. I see headlines in the news that several states have forbidden…

ON THE FREQUENCY OF SEEING INJUSTICE By Randy Nabors I speculate on the effect of being overloaded with the sensory exposure of violence and injustice. This present generation has the experience of being able to instantly see acts of injustice perpetrated in various places, usually in short snippets of video, and that repeatedly. We see…

THERE IS NO UTOPIA! By Randy Nabors So, where are we going? To what culmination does our ideology imagine the human race will arrive at? Will the “invisible hand” of capitalism protect the masses, so that efficiency, supply and demand, help us work everything out? Or will only the fittest survive? Will materialistic determinism get…

By Randy Nabors Recently I have been rebuked about some of my comments regarding our present political climate.  I am trying to take those to heart because I pray for peace and what to do things that make for peace, but I do write what I believe to be the truth.  How thankful I am…

THE CHURCH MILITANT By Randy Nabors FIT TO FIGHT It kind of amused me when I realized that the Army wanted me to be as healthy as possible before they sent me to war.  The Army didn’t want me to go to war if I was sick, had bad teeth, or any kind of injury. …

SHOW SOME RESPECT! BY Randy Nabors I have a friendly name.  Actually it’s my middle name, which I prefer, and I think it sounds friendly because it ends with a “y.”  My friends call me Randy. I know of a famous evangelist who asked everyone to call him “Billy.”  I have heard of a Prime…

FORCE AND VIOLENCE Back in the early 70s’ I was at a L’Abri Conference held at Covenant College.  Oz Guinness was giving a lecture about “Force and Violence.”  I was intrigued and impressed with his ability to help explain the functions and distinctions about both.  Some of his thoughts still help me as I seek…

We are facing the election of 2020.  I can feel the temperature rising.  I have friends on both sides, people who can’t stand President Trump, and partisans for either President Trump or the conservative party. Let me say up front I am neither a Republican nor a Democrat.   I try to vote as a Christian…

REFLECTIONS ON JUSTICE Anthony Bradley wrote an interesting article the other day in Fathom magazine, “Finally Healing the Wounds of Jim Crow.”  It was interesting to me because it echoed some of the discussion my wife and I have had about racial trauma and racial healing.  She has often pointed to what happened in South…

RACISM BY Randy Nabors    Racial discussions in America are full of rhetorical flourish, phrases, and powerful words which sometimes are not clearly defined, or not universally accepted.  Even when there is agreement on definition there might still be conflict over the existence of a concept, such as people when people insist America is built on…

Recently someone called me from an inner-city non-profit ministry.  They had some unfortunate experiences with trying to hire people and then having it turn into a negative experience.  They wanted some advice.  My discussion with them covered some basic human resource process as well as problems centering around race and class. I thought the discussion…

IS THERE ANY REASON FOR OPTIMISM? n My answer is “yes” but I am struggling to articulate why.  I will give you my reasons, and I am sure on just about each one there is an opposing point of view.  Nevertheless, in spite of all the trouble we are in, in these days of a…