Archive for August, 2010

Communion for Kids? – Part One

This is part one of a three part post on paedocommunion that my friend Jon put together.  It’s the practice of allowing young children to partake in the Lord’s Supper.  The usual disclaimers apply in that I didn’t write this, but I happen to think what he says has merit.  I’ve posted this as is, [...]

Not Peace But a Sword

Jesus said that he came not to bring peace, but a sword. In context he seems to be saying that a natural outcome of his ministry would be division. I tweeted the other day asking how many of our questions were like that of the Pharisees. They often asked questions designed to misdirect or to [...]

Promises, Promises

There are a couple of ways (okay probably more than a couple of ways) that God is understood to have dealt with humanity throughout the ages. The two most prominent are Dispensationalism and Covenant Theology. At the risk of doing damage to either and in the interest of saving space I won’t go into too [...]

Final Destination

I’ve been reading some N. T. Wright thanks to my friend Jon and based on that I have to ask the believers in the crowd the following question. When you die where is your ultimate destination provided you are a follower of Christ? Bonus question, what about immediately after you die? I’ll weigh in after [...]

Are We Good?

We’re going through the fruits of the spirit in church. As a refresher that this passage: Gal. 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. The associate pastor that gave the sermon did some research and determined [...]