Songwriter Marty Sampson and the Unsustainability of Feelings-Based Faith

I remember a dilemma I faced as a worship leader figuring out whether we should add a particular worship song into our mix. Solid lyrics, catchy tune—however, I had just learned that the songwriter had been covering up a years-long affair during the same time he was writing chart-topping worship songs. What do we do […]

A Pastor’s 4 Reflections on Joshua Harris’s Latest Goodbye

My (Bobby’s) children grew up in the late 1990s and early 2000s. They remember… WWJD Bracelets DC Talk, Jars of Clay, and Steven Curtis Chapman Big youth groups and youth camps And then there was Joshua Harris’s book, I Kissed Dating Goodbye. As parents, Cindy and I asked them to read it because we remembered […]