1. If I believed in the resurrection, the American dream would be appalling. 2. If I believed in the resurrection I would support missions wrecklessly. 3. If I believed in the resurrection I wouldn’t be embarrassed about Jesus. 4. If I believed in the resurrection I would forgive as I have been forgiven. 5. If I believed in the resurrection my image would be...

Imputation, Justification, Propitiation, all of those are transactional in their definition. I want to write about something but don’t know how to fully explain it without sounding like a heretic. But I am going to try and let me know what you think okay? Okay! Because of the protestant reformation, our Gospel has become very transactional very abstract....

In Matthew 5:13 Jesus calls us the salt of the earth. Paul calls the world darkened by Satan in Ephesians 4:17-24, he tells us to live Godly lives in Titus 2:11-14, in 1 Thessalonians 4:3-7 he tells us to pursue holiness. Peter tells us in 2 Peter 3:11-13 we ought to have holy and Godly lives. I can continue but you get the drift. The church is not only called to...

Missions is the heartbeat of God. Please, please don’t let anyone else tell you anything else. God, reconciling the world to Himself though the death and resurrection of His Son is what Christianity is. God is the gospel as John Piper says. God has shared Himself with His creation by faith and this faith can only be achieved through hearing (Romans 10) If...

I have been meditating on grumbling over the last two weeks or so. It really came to head about a week ago and even more Monday. The cleaners lost two of my brand new shirts. Shirts I haven’t even worn yet, but was taking them to get pressed and I was very upset. I didn’t say much or do much but I am sure the woman so the frustration on my face and in my...

I have been thinking lately about the state of the Church in America. So often, I see us fixated on “issues”. We are issue driven. Women, Ecclesiology, Ordination, Bible Versions, Denominationalism, Lord’s Supper, Eschatology and on and on and on and on. I am not saying that these things have no value. But there is one conclusion that we should all...