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...

Well since I have decided to go a new direction and pursue a more traditional church setting, I now have the very difficult task of searching for a church home (a group of believers to live life with larger than the current folks who are the greatest). The biggest problem is I have specific convictions that are important to me. These convictions would prevent me...

I said I wasn’t going to respond but decided I would attempt to address this post. Let me first start by saying there is a growing fear in Christianity. That fear is based off the fact that many young Christians (and older ones also) are a bit tired of what is called “church” today and have responded to it. Now I will say that I have many of the...

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...

Ephesians says this 25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. I want to discuss...

Here is a post I made back in Aug 2008. I wrote this post while struggling through issues of ecclesiology. Let me know what you think >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I think I struggle with polished ministry. There seems to be this...