We started in January of 2012. As of today, we have completed chapter 27. Next month, we will embark on the final chapter of Matthew in our small group men’s Bible study. It has been an adventure, a wonderful time of fellowship, and an amazing opportunity to go deeper into the Word of God. Thank […]
Myriad excellent works of the faith throughout the centuries have used the “proof-text” method for supporting their statements: Westminster Shorter Catechism, Second London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689, and many many more. On the surface, it seems like a great idea – quote the single statement (or sometimes a couple single statements) that support your […]
Stories like the popular Left Behind series, or really any eschatalogical – other than Jerusalem Countdown – story always has a rapture event in it somewhere. Excepting the aforementioned movie (which was very good, in my opinion), I think there is a simple reason for this: if Jesus’ second coming is not presaged by a […]
Recently I wrote a post about how you are either pro-life or pro-death. I’ve since referenced that blog post a couple places, and have been attacked for it. I stand by my previous writing, but here extend the logic just a little. When I talked about this on a facebook post last week, I was […]
For the past many months I have been meeting almost bi-weekly with a small group to study the book of Matthew. We started in Jan 2012, and as of the end of May of 2013, we’ve made it through chapter 21. At our last meeting, I had an epiphany: if the gospels were written today, […]
A recent article, along with some other recent discussions I’ve had, has led me to study-out the issue of both “antichrist” (lowercase ‘a’), and “The Antichrist” (uppercase ‘A’). First let me point out that the term “antichrist” is only used 4 times in the New Testament*, only by John, and only in the first two […]
My wife will have substantially more on this, but we did have movement this month: 3 slots. We’re still in the 60s, but only barely!
This will likely be the last term I teach a Sunday afternoon discipleship class at Porter. But this is a Good Thing™. Beginning the first Sunday in April, I will be trialing as the new primary leader of a SS class Life Group. If all goes well, after the first month, I’ll be in there […]
Trials hurt. They stretch us, bend us, twist us, and pressure us as they develop us into the people God would have us to be. A chef in an authentic pizzeria stretches the dough, pounds it, flattens it, rolls it, twirls it, and then cooks it. A pizza can’t become all that a pizza was […]
It’s important to realize faith is more than a feeling. Faith is a function. (God’s Unlikely Path to Success by Tony Evans p38 (ref)) {session 1 thoughts}