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Mark D. Roberts

As most of my readers know, I don’t accept advertising on this website. But, upon occasion, I do point my readers to products or services that I have found helpful. Today I want to highlight Lapinator and Overstock.com. Lapinator Every now and then I actually want to use my laptop computer on my lap. The…

Part 5 of series: Pride and the Power of the Pulpit Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series In my last post, I suggested what a person should do if his or her preacher fell prey to pulpit pride and started to preach irresponsibly. In today’s post, I want to offer advice for…

Part 4 of series: Pride and the Power of the Pulpit Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series As I wrap up this series on Pride and the Power of the Pulpit, I want to speak practically to those who find themselves in a situation not unlike that of Barack Obama. What should…

Today as I was scanning the latest edition of The Boerne Star, my hometown paper, I read several headlines that impressed me as being unlike anything I had seen in a while . . . maybe ever. The headlines included: Sewer leads city agenda A front page headline. Not exactly going to sell many papers.…

I’m the seventh stop in a book blog tour for Trading Places: The Best Move You’ll Ever Make in Your Marriage by Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott. If you’re interested, you can find the other stops here. Here’s the Parrotts official bio: Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott are founders of www.RealRelationships.com and the Center for…

Yesterday was Pentecost, the day when Christians celebrate the birthday of the church, which happened when the Holy Spirit was poured out upon the first disciples of Jesus. Yesterday was also Mother’s Day. In fact, it was the 100th anniversary of the first Mother’s Day celebration in church. Yesterday was also a day in which…

The Ministry of John the Baptist READ Matthew 3:1-12 “Repent of your sins and turn to God, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near.” Matthew 3:2 These days, if we even use the word “repent” in common discourse, we emphasize feeling bad for something we have done. “I have repented” means “I am truly sorry…

Last weekend my wife and I attended a party at a ranch in the Hill Country of Texas about 25 miles from our house. In order to get to this ranch, we had to drive through another ranch. This other ranch had exotic game wandering about. It was like driving in a zoo, or in…

Part 2 of series: An Evangelical Manifesto: Why I Signed Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series Yesterday I began to explain why I joined the list of “charter signatories” for An Evangelical Manifesto: The Washington Declaration of Evangelical Identity and Public Commitment. I summed up my rationale this way: I signed because…

Part 1 of series: An Evangelical Manifesto: Why I Signed Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series I am one of the “charter signatories” of An Evangelical Manifesto: The Washington Declaration of Evangelical Identity and Public Commitment. In this post I want to explain, briefly, why I signed. Before I do, however, I…
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