Okay, I admit it… I have had a life-long fetish about Bibles (translations, translation theory, and production) and Study Bibles (layout, design, and content)… call me bizarre, eccentric, bookish, weird, strange, or irregular– I can handle …

This is a letter on Proposition 8 I wrote to the church I pastor…
“… that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, …

Questions I find myself asking about our candidates and my faith. These questions are not in any order of priority… 
Why do our presidential candidates use half-truths and distortions to incite fear, mistrust, and anger? Is …

As promised here are the 2 pastoral definitions that I shared at the conclusion of my talk last Saturday night:
Abiding is the disposition of a life that is nourished, sustained, and strengthened by the true …

From my Life Journal last week…
SCRIPTURE:

Psalm 59.9-10: O my Strength, I will watch for you, for you, O God, are my fortress. 10 My God in his steadfast love will meet me…
OBSERVATION:
David praises God that …

1 Corinthians 2.8: None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 
Paul endeavors to disengage the gospel and the centrality of the …

Last Sunday, began a new series at Faith where we are going to study the life of Jesus by exclusively looking at the Gospels… so I wanted to answer the question: Why study the gospels? … since there were 12 apostles I thought I would come up with 12 reasons– I know it’s not the 3 point sermon we are suppose to follow but then Jesus never preached a 3 point sermon either!

Last Sunday as part of our series on spirituality we discussed this theme: Sabbath: Where Time and Spirituality Meet.
This entry is a rough outline on the significance of the Sabbath from the point of view …

 
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world thct we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but …

Romans 12.2: 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 …

“You also must help us by prayer… For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely …

There are many recipes for the destruction of a nation. Yet each shares a single ingredient— the repudiation of the uniqueness, the authority, the supremacy, and the clarity of God’s revelation through the Scriptures. The …

Acts 4:24: When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God..
Prayer is a powerful word. Mention it in a room full of Christians and watch the tone of the conversation become …

For we are… God’s building… like living stones being built into a house.” (1 Corinthians 3:9; 1Peter 1.5)
Followers of Jesus Christ do not go to church. Followers of Jesus Christ are the Church. God’s building …

At our church we have been studying the example of Daniel under the theme of “Success Without Surrender(ing your faith)” As we have been looking to understand an alternative model for success the chapters we …

[A FOLLOW-UP TO APRIL 15TH ENTRY]
    1John 3.8: The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the evil one…
    Esther 4.14: Who knows? Perhaps you have come to …

The scholars’ query: How can an infinite and holy God reveal Himself to finite and sinful man?
The seekers’ question: What is God like?
Philosophers, kings, theologians, priests, sociologists, presidents and chiefs, historians, and people of every …

“But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth (Exodus 9.16).”At our annual men’s retreat last month I shared …

You have forsaken your first love. (Revelation 2.4)
Fix your thoughts upon Jesus. (Hebrews 3.1)
The correspondence within the New Testament contains a distinctive focus and a singular challenge. The distinctive focus is the uniqueness and supremacy …

Matthew 5-7: When Jesus saw the crowds He went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to Him and He began to teach them saying, “Blessed are the poor in spirit… Blessed …

This past weekend men from our fellowship joined 2 other fellowships for our annual men’s retreat… The theme was “The Call.” Here is a reflection that grew out of this time away…
Following Jesus makes life …

Acts, 17.11, 12: Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness, and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was …

For a child has been born to us,
A son has been given to us,
And the government has been
resting on His shoulders;
And His name has been called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. (Isaiah 9.6)
Here …