Dove World Outreach Center (I guess they forget Muslims are part of the world) plans to hold a “Burn Quaran Day” on September the 11th. Here are a few thoughts. 1. If I am a pastor in any decent driving range from this church I am calling the staff in to have a heart to heart about the Gospel and what it demands of us. 2. A group of churches in the area...

Every Christian is valuable to God, that means they are valuable to me also. And since they are valuable to me, what they have to say is also valuable to me. They are filled with God’s Spirit and thus they can speak on the behalf of God to me. Now it is my job to discern such speech; however, because they are valuable I am to listen and give careful...

Charity supersedes Liberty. Listen to the words of F.F Bruce It is to God that each believer must ultimately render his account, and it is to God that he is responsible for his conduct here and now. Christian Liberty is a precious thing, not to be limited by Christian charity. Christ, his people’s supreme exemplar, always considered the interests of others...

Our little group will begin to study and apply the book of Romans beginning Sunday which I am very excited about. One thing that I was ingrained in me was Bible Study Methods a good acronym to use in bible study methods is SWAP. This stands for Subject, Writer, Audience and Purpose.  Two big helps with getting the audience was Frank Viola’s “The Untold...

If you have not seen the movie, this will not be a spoiler. This is just a perspective that I would like to share about a movie that has moved me in light of the message of Jesus. The Book of Eli is about a man name Eli who is traveling to take a very important book somewhere West. Often times he has to kill to protect it. Other times he ignores gross atrocities so...

Alan Knox said this to a response: There are only two options (the way we treat other Christians): 1) I treat someone as a brother or sister, or 2) I treat someone as if they are not a brother or sister. Unfortunately, denominationalism tends to teach a “middle ground” where we accept that someone is a child of God, but we don’t have to treat that person (or...