We’ve been talking a lot about idolatry at church lately. The working definition that seems to be used for an idol is “anything that you express or feel more love for than you do for God”. Given that most folks don’t worship idols in the same sense that they did hundreds or thousands of years [...]

It’s rare to come across a book on Christianity that resonates closely with me. I’ve always felt like I was a little too far outside the mainstream. Not so far that I’d identify with authors that were “heretics”, but far enough that I don’t get gut punched by authors like David Jeremiah or D. James [...]

I’ve both heard and expressed what it means to be “saved” in an untold number of ways.  For the most part I’ve always internalized and personalized it.  In other words, I made salvation all about me and my one on one relationship with God through Christ.  I also attached my ultimate destination to it and [...]

This is part three of a three part post on paedocommunion that my friend Jon put together. Part one is here. Part two is here. 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 [...]

This is part two of a three part post on paedocommunion that my friend Jon put together. Part one is here.  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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

I was sent a link to the Conservative Bible Project – Conservapedia by a friend last night and then Sid tweeted about it this morning. It is an effort by political conservatives to correct what they view as errors in translation due to bias in “converting the original language to the modern one” by “retranslating [...]

On Friday I posed an informal twitter poll, “as a Christian are you a) Young Earth Creationist b) Old Earth Creationist or c) Other (details?)”. As usual I got an interesting crop of answers to this. Before we get to the details though, a little clarification of what may be considered inside baseball (a term [...]