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When Do I Apply God’s Truth? When Do I Apply God’s Grace?
Q & A at a Conference I recently shared at my Presbyterian denominations national gathering. Many breakout workshops were offered over the span of days at the conference and my presentation was called “Offering Truth & Grace: The Transgender Experience”. An...
Making Positive Choices When Facing Addiction
This month in our Thursday Night meetings, we are discussing the topic of addiction in our ReSOULutions series “Seeking True Connection: Addictions are False Solutions.” Common consequences of addiction are poor self-care and poor coping strategies. Neglecting these...
A Prayer Paradigm
Have you wanted to pray but haven’t known how? Have you ever wanted to cry to God with “groans too deep for words” (Rom 8:26)? Prayer can be a profoundly painful and emotionally complicated experience, wrought with relational and sometimes private matters. My wife...
The Most Urgent Question
These days the WGA staff are getting more opportunities to participate in conversations with pastors and leaders who are grappling with how to love people well, especially those who are lgbtq+, in the context of today’s culture. The question is a constant drum beat...
Should I Let My Child Read a “Banned” Book?
I recently discovered that my daughter will be reading a book about a transgender child in her 4th grade class. Yes, it is one that is often on the Banned Book lists. Of course, I have mixed feelings about this. Those mixed feelings aren’t because I don’t believe...
How We Respond to the Trans Movement Matters
Over the last few years, I’ve given the same workshop presentation at two of our national Presbyterian gatherings—“Understanding the Transgender Experience with Compassion and Truth”. The transgender experience and phenomenon are very complex and layered topics. Have...
Advent | Love
Do you hear it? Have you felt it? This time of year can churn within us and around us a holy imagination as well as a holy aggravation. Christmas songs for example, great.....until about the 15th one in a row! Take “Mary Did you Know”. Beautiful song, biblically...
2022 Year-End-Review
2022 is rapidly coming to a close. We are so grateful for another year of ministry. It has been incredibly encouraging to see how God has continued to provide for WGA’s needs. Would you join us as we celebrate what God has done in 2022? WGA’s Thursday Night...
Power in Prayer: Do I Believe This?
One day I hope I am spiritually grown up enough to say (and believe), “Prayer is the first and best thing I can do.” Sadly, today, after 50 years of Christ following, I sometimes instead find myself saying, “I guess all I can do is pray.” I was reflecting about this...
30 Years at WGA—Who Knew???
A Chat with My Younger Self So, I’m violating all laws of time travel and venturing back to early 1987 to have a chat with my younger self. Of course, we all know that if someone sees their older mirror image from the future, the consequences could be insanity. Since...