Posted in Answering The Culture, by Pastor Phillip Lee, Mark Your Calendar on Oct 21st, 2026
“There’s something I need to tell you…I’m gay.” These are hard words to hear from a beloved family member. But as hard as they are to hear, they are usually just as hard for the same-sex attracted person to utter. No matter the relationship – parent, child, grandparent, spouse, sibling – that admission will likely […]
Posted in Answering The Culture, by Pastor Phillip Lee on Oct 20th, 2026
“I did not become a Christian to leave homosexuality.” I became a Christian very late in life, and as a result, I came to Christ with a whole lot of excess baggage. You know, stuff! Not unlike a multitude of others, I thought (at least to a degree), that a lot of my “stuff” would […]
Posted in Answering The Culture, by Pastor Phillip Lee on Oct 13th, 2026
So grateful for friend and pastor, Pastor Brandon Holthaus. The Oxford American Dictionary defines “silence” as, “absence of sound; avoidance or absence of speaking or of making a sound; the fact of not mentioning something.” Today, while a segment of the Church continues to consciously and deliberately avoid the subject of homosexuality, God, however, is […]
Posted in Answering The Culture, by Pastor Phillip Lee on Oct 10th, 2026
If I were an individual self-identifying as a ‘gay Christian,’ I would at some point in all honesty and truth need to truly face myself and ask, “Am I more gay or am I more Christian?” Having a different point of view, a different understanding and belief, or deeply held conviction never has nor will […]
Posted in Answering The Culture, by Pastor Phillip Lee on Oct 8th, 2026
No one hates the LGBT community more than the devil. John 10:10 says, “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life and have it to the full.” God is the God of all creation, and the devil does not have the power to destroy the […]
Posted in Answering The Culture, by Pastor Phillip Lee on Sep 27th, 2026
How can we be Overcomers (Rev. 12:11) if there isn’t anything to overcome? “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.” (Romans 12:2) But, practically speaking, how is […]
Posted in by Pastor Phillip Lee, Mark Your Calendar on Sep 24th, 2026
ANNOUNCEMENTS Due to my returning to Israel on Monday, September 28, 2026, to facilitate Educational Workshops at the Festival of Life in Petah Tikva, Israel… “Time Out” Men’s Discipleship Series scheduled to begin Saturday, October 3, 2026, is now postponed to begin Saturday, November 7, 2026. “Straight Talk” will not be meeting Sunday, October 4, […]
Posted in Answering The Culture, by Pastor Phillip Lee on Sep 23rd, 2026
“It is better to be divided by truth than united in error.” – Adrian Rogers Many people try to excuse their sin by saying, “I was born this way.” Which is why Jesus said, “You must be born again” (John 3:3). Dr. Robert L. Spitzer, who passed away on December 25, 2015, at the age […]
Posted in Answering The Culture, by Pastor Phillip Lee on Sep 21st, 2026
Today a relentless and often misguided focus of LGBTQ activists on being an ally in support of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning individuals due to bigotry, malice, ignorance and mean-spirited jokes often perpetrated against the LGBTQ community continues. I once sat on the receiving end of being clobbered with Scripture by well-meaning but horribly […]
Posted in Answering The Culture, by Pastor Phillip Lee on Sep 16th, 2026
Being a professing Christian who adheres to and applies the truths of Scripture to the world around us has never been easy. That said, how do we stand up to an increasingly hostile culture that demands our silence? How do we truly speak truth with love? How can a Christian relationally and effectively address our […]