Christian Growth
Stop Trying to Fix Yourself
My wife and I have been leading the Wednesday night children’s group at our church for almost four years. In that time we have seen many kids come through the program. Some have stayed and some have moved on but with every child came one more opportunity to make an eternal impact, to make a [...]
Church and Ministry
The Church Full of Controversy
I read a lot of blogs, most of which revolve around evangelical Christianity and the issues in the church. One thing that I have noticed lately in browsing through my reader is that Christians love controversy. From scandals involving church leaders, to criticisms on supposed heresies, to controversial books, Christians love writing and reading about [...]
Global Mission
More Than a Fan
On the night before Easter my community puts on a big outdoor Easter pageant, with actors on the side of a hill doing pantomime and narrators in a booth providing the voices for the various “characters” in the story of Jesus’ death and resurrection. Its a wonderful event and something that pretty much the whole [...]
History
Against the Flow
I have been doing a lot of reading lately about the history of Christianity in America. Some of it has been fairly boring but for the most part the facts surrounding the church in the early days of this country have been pretty interesting and more than a little inspiring. From the events that shaped [...]
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Hey Jude
Hey Jude, It’s dad. I’m sitting here thinking about you and wondering when you will ever be born. And I can’t help but imagine what you will be like when you are finally here. So many questions flow through my mind as I wonder what kind of person you will one day become. As a baby [...]
The Last Supper – A Poem
As you sat among your friends And looked upon each face, As you raised your cup to sip the wine Your gaze was clothed in grace. You ate the bread and with each bite You knew it was your last. Yet still you took the time to dine For death would come too fast. And [...]
Music Mondays: Just Like You
Over the last couple of years Christian rap has taken on a new identity with the increasing popularity of people like Flame, Trip Lee, and Lecrae. Whereas ten years ago the genre sounded more like a cheap version of low quality secular rap, these days there is a noticeable (and powerful) difference. It seems as [...]
Music Mondays: God’s Not Dead
After Peter Furler left the Newsboys a while back, some were unsure how the band would fare. There were questions about whether they would maintain their same unique sound and style, their passion to make music that wasn’t only faithful to God but was…different, unusual, distinct. With Michael Tait as the new frontman, would the [...]
Fridays Are For Families: Your Child May Be Looking at Porn
Recently Mars Hill Church released an infographic they created that shows the statistics on pornography in America. The numbers in this chart are astonishing and it uncovers a very real problem in our society that unfortunately is not being adequately addressed. No longer are grown men the typical porn viewers, but now young adolescent boys [...]
When Grace Isn’t Enough
How much does grace really cover? We talk about grace in the context of salvation. We tell people that they need to believe the Gospel and accept Jesus and receive this gift of grace that washes away their sins and makes them clean. We talk about grace in the context of God’s forgiveness, in the fact [...]
The Miracle-Worker
When you read through the Gospels and consider all the accounts of Jesus’ miracles, it becomes so clear that He was someone powerful. He was someone who could still the winds and the waves with the sound of His voice and the motion of His hand. He was someone who could raise the dead with [...]
You can finally rest.
The fourth chapter of Hebrews is one of those sections of the Bible that truly encourages the Christian, offering hope and a promise that cannot be shaken. In examining the words of the author in just the first ten verses it becomes clear that today’s believer, under the new covenant of Jesus Christ, enjoys tremendous [...]
Ash Wednesday and Lent: More Than Religious Practices
Ash Wednesday. It’s a day of spiritual recognition, the day that marks the beginning of Lent, the period that leads up to the celebration of Christ’s triumphant resurrection. On this day many believers in more liturgical denominations will attend special Ash Wednesday services where they will have ashes applied to their foreheads as a symbol [...]
Who cares about those dumb doctrines?
In 1922 a Protestant Pastor from New York named Harry Emerson Fosdick preached a controversial sermon entitled, “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” in which he protested the doctrinal stances of fundamentalist preachers and churches. His goal in this sermon was to criticize those churches who saw the “major doctrines” of the virgin birth, the inspiration of the [...]
