Have you ever dreamed of an opportunity that you longed to become a reality only to have it fall by the wayside? If not, stick around, because you will. Dreams have a way of fighting against [...]
This past Monday, I experienced a first in my life. Along with some local college students and members from my local church, we gathered on a beautiful sun-lit Monday evening on the campus of [...]
I have been traveling on short-term mission trips to multiple countries for almost 10 years now. Each trip has been an adventure and each one has taught me something about the character of God. [...]
I have enjoyed writing to you, my readers, on a weekly basis. Making a commitment at the beginning of this year to blog once a week was one of the best decisions I have ever made. Hopefully it [...]
For this week’s post, I would like to pause from my regular series and unpeel a couple of misconceptions in our response to our country’s moral judgments these last couple of weeks. I will not [...]
For a few weeks now, I have been writing on the issue of the local church and fellowship. I thought I would take a break from the study side of this issue and share a report on V4L’s outreach to [...]
I’m curious I’m curious. Does anyone else have this “problem”? You are studying a biblical issue in order to prepare to teach or understand it more deeply and, as you study, the Lord [...]
Last week, we began to talk about how we “do church”. It is a big subject when you are trying to dissect it biblically and then apply it daily. There are the “marks” that should characterize and [...]
Our culture is in no way conducive for ‘doing church’. It is very easy and comfortable to hold a strong and biblical theological position on the church without ever actually applying [...]
Last week we did a very brief fly over of church History and observed the last couple hundred years, its effect on the church, and its current state. This has set us up perfectly to delve into [...]