I was quite troubled the first time I heard someone say, years ago at this point, that the story about Jesus and the woman caught in adultery was not inspired Scripture, and thus didn't belong in the Bible. Of course it troubled me, but I did nothing about trying to understand why this story was…
This review below is a summary of the full review (you can read the full review here or go to my Writing Section under "reviews") for a book called How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth. This particular book has been on my list to read for quite some time now, but I…
It was just about this time last year that I wrote a post with a similar question, and answered it in a slightly generic non-scholarly sort of research answer (see Did Jesus Descend into Hell After He Died on the Cross?). I had no idea that in the time of about a year I would…
A good bit of seminary work is reading the classics from Calvin and Luther going back all the way to Augustine. There is a good reason, they have a huge amount of collective knowledge we can all still learn from today and apply to our own ministry. Table Talk is the classic text written by…
I just finished off another book. Every time I'm able to finish a book I think it's a really amazing thing to me, still. Below is part of a review I did on this particular book called The Four Views on Hell (Amazon). Even though I had to read the book for a seminary class…
Over the last several years I have been asked to answer, from many different perspectives, "What is the purpose/priority of the church" and "What makes a true disciple?" (this post is the first question). Most of the time the answer to this question comes from what our culture says, and not from what Scripture says,…
Below is a short review of a book I just finished called The Necessity of Prayer by E.M. Bounds. It can be read for free here, or on Amazon over here, or even on audiobook over here. If you want the real real short version then pick up this book and read it, it is…
This is an old topic, but one that never goes away, for good reason. Below is basically an excerpt from an assignment in one of my evangelism classes on Servant-Leadership and innovations in the Church, and also serves as a very short review of the book InnovateChurch by Jonathan Falwell. In a three part discussion…
One paper down, two to go. Course the first one was the shortest and easiest, ugh #lbts (Taken with instagram)(Source: http://instagr.am/p/YLc6V/)
I love being part of a local church body that takes the GO in God's word literally, and seriously. Last week I spent as much time as I could studying about mission theology and how it relates to the nature of God for an international missions paper. Even though my study was under the context…
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