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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Came across this excerpt at The Naked Pastor (a blog/cartoon you should really keep up with) The first mistake is surely to condescend to fundamentalism. We may disagree with it, but it has attracted millions of adherents for centuries, and for a good reason. It elevates and comforts. It provides a sense of meaning and [...]

I ran across a blog post in which the author was requesting that he be fenced in. In essence, Josh and his wife decided on a number of ways that he and his wife could “remain 1) faithful to God 2) faithful to each other and 3) in vocational ministry the rest of our lives”. [...]

Take a look at this trailer and then let’s talk. We have a lot of idols in this society and no small number of them revolve around personal appearance and the effort to stay not only young but unnaturally fit. I recorded a podcast for Compassion365 on beauty that addressed a thought or two on [...]

I just got back from our yearly men’s retreat yesterday and it was a truly great time. We talked a lot about what it meant to be a Dad. Hunter talked about raising his sons and another gentleman from out church talked about raising his daughters. We also watched a video from Mark Driscoll that [...]

In Episode 16 I get to interview Jared Wilson about his upcoming book Your Jesus is Too Safe and about his blog/ministry the Gospel Driven Church. Mentioned in this podcast:Let Christians Vote As Though They Were Not Voting Promo played for Are You Just Watching

In episode seven A little bit of predestination talk. Mentioned: Sid’s Blog Predestination/Election (pt. 1) Predestination/Election (pt. 2) Music from3rd Man, called Blind Spot.

First off, let me say that I loves me some interwebs. You run into all sorts of interesting people, learn all kinds of interesting things and get into all manor of interesting discussions. I got into one such discussion on Casey’s blog about predestination and election. Casey and I don’t see eye to eye and [...]