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Category: Theology

  • Biblical Church Leadership II

    This is a continuation of a previous post, if you haven’t read Biblical Church Leadership I suggest you first read it to make sure completely understand the context of this post. Today we will examine the elder.

  • Biblical Church Leadership

    I have recently started down a road of examining ecclesiology, or how the church is structured. Although I was taught a little about it in Bible College I have been challenged on the Biblical veracity of some of those teaching and so I began to study the concept. I understand that we all come into…

  • Text and Context

    This is actually an add for a conference that is upcoming sponsored by theresurgence.com. I wish I could go but normally they post the highlights on their podcast so at least I will get to listen to them. But if someone wants to send me to the conference I would gladly accept 🙂

  • Looking ahead to the New Year

    Almost three years ago I made a new year’s resolution to read the Bible cover to cover I assumed it would take me an entire year, because that is what all the plans I found online say, but it only took me nine months. The following year I asked Dale to Join me and we…

  • Idolatry in our lives

    Romans 1:25 – They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen Someone once said “The opposite of Christianity is not atheism but idolatry” and Mark Driscoll has made the point that because we are created to worship we will worship…

  • More from the Willow Creek Study

    More on Willow Creek’s findings If you don’t know what those findings are please check out my previous post. One thing that was covered in Willow Creeks Key findings page was that the people whose lives are most centered on Christ are those who are most dissatisfied with the church as a whole. I can’t…

  • Blowing my Mind — Willowcreek “We were wrong”

    I am not trying take this time to bash Willowcreek but I am tipping my hat to them for admitting their errors and continuing to seek God regarding how they are supposed to do things. It is easy when you are one of the most ‘successful’ churches in the country to just put it into…

  • The Gospel

    Some Time ago a quote from DA Carson and it has really had a profound affect on the way I think about the gospel and ministry. Here is the quote in full context and a link to the text of the message. Perhaps more common yet is the tendency to assume the gospel, whatever that…

  • The Gospel

    Over the weekend I was bowling with my wife, working on my hook, and I told her that recently I have been learning more and more that I had some traces of arrogance in my when it comes to my salvation.  I wasn’t quite able to articulate it to her like I wanted to so…

  • Good News or Good Advice?

    Good News or Good advice? Over the weekend I heard a message by Dr Tim Keller which quite literally kept me awake and really changed me.  Tim Keller is one of those men who are so deep and yet so simple at the same time that I am amazed.  So, I will finally put some…