Tom Allen

This week we watched as "non-violent protestors" set a city on fire and looted the storefronts of innocent small business owners.  Then, we polished off the week with Muslim terrorists traveling from Arizona to Garland, Texas to apparently kill a cartoonist that dared to satirize the prophet Mohammed.  It's been quite a week.  Not one for the record books.  Nor, one to be proud of.  So, what do we make of this?  Here's a few barely incoherent ramblings... * All our great attempts to solve the racial divide in this country have only resulted in deepening an already fragmented society .  Laws and government intervention is not, nor will it ever be the answer.  It is, by nature, a heart problem, and thus, can only be resolved by the One who changes men's hearts * We must avoid, at all costs, the ever-present inclination to paint everyone of any segment of society with a single brush .  There are Christians who do stupid things.  I don't...

It's EARTH DAY! So, what does that mean for me?  Hug a tree?  Worship Mother Earth?  Be at one with Nature?  Vow to re-cycle more?  Go on with life as though it's any other day? I'm assuming that most of you are going with that last option.  But, is that the best option?  Maybe not. During my 60 years of life I've noticed a few things.  One on the list is that Christians are, for the most part, reactionary beings.  We RE-ACT  a lot better (or at least a lot more often) than we ACT.   Earth Day is a wonderful example.  We associate Earth Day with all those liberal, tree-hugging, Mother Earth-worshipping, Environmentalist whack-job, everything we do is killing the planet and I need a cause to live for and if you don't have my cause as your cause you're an idiot, save the whales weirdos.  So, when Earth Day comes around our #1 priority is to RE-ACT by simply not  being associated with " those people".   We...

Right now, at CROSSPOINT CHURCH, we're doing a series entitled, BRINGING SEXY BACK.   A series on SEX ?  Seriously?  That brings up a few questions: #1:  Why is our church spending four weeks talking about the subject of SEX? Because the world around us is dominated and saturated with sex!  It's everywhere.  In movies, on television, in music and even in the supermarket checkout line.  And, most of it (over 95%) is portrayed as something that happens between two people who are unmarried. The Church is bent out of shape because the world has got sex wrong, yet is terrified to address the subject out of fear we may make someone uncomfortable or cause them to blush.  So, while the world  continues to be immersed in the sexual gutter, the church allows it to be the only voice to speak up on the topic.  Meanwhile, we talk about transubstantiation and who is the true author of the book of Hebrews, while ignoring issues that are burning i...