Death to Life

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“For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we [...]

Atheistic View on Evangelism

“I don’t respect people who don’t proselytize. If you believe that there’s a heaven and hell, and people could be going to hell, and you think, ‘Well, it’s not really worth telling them this because it would make it socially awkward’…How much do you have to hate somebody not to proselytize?”

I [...]

Overheard

“All Christian preaching springs from the truth that God has spoken in word and deed, and that He has chosen human vessels to bear witness to Himself and His gospel.  We speak because we cannot be silent.  We speak because God has spoken.”
-R. Albert Mohler, Jr., He Is Not Silent: Preaching in a Postmodern World (Chicago, IL: [...]

My Family

God has been too good to me! A beautiful wife, an awesome son, and a daughter soon to be here Dec. 9th.  Valerie and I have been together since 1997 andwere married in 1999. Next year will be the big 10 for us! Russell was born in 2005. We never knew how much happiness and [...]

Lessons From Bond

In honor of the new Bond film coming out this week I came across an article titled 6 Lessons in Manliness from James Bond. Which got me thinking. The article points out very helpful advice on manliness according to James Bond. While I don’t think the list is complete nor should James Bond be the [...]

Modern Day Parable

It speaks for itself.

Divided?

Below is a quote from Eugene Peterson, author of the Message, the Message Remix, and many other books, speaking with Laity Lodge about distinctions we have put between laity and clergy. The video interview can be found at thehighcalling.org.
I went through a list of people the other day of who have influenced me the most.  [...]

Building Healthy Churches part 4

Greg Gilbert of 9marks ministries and Capital Hill Baptist Church gae the fourth message in the conference on Building Healthy Churches. HIs topic was church membership & church discipline. To be honest I wasn’t too thrilled to hear about church membership as I was to hear about church discipline. Much too my surprise I was [...]

James 3: A story

Take 5 minutes and watch this short video from Desiring God. It was shown at the National Conference and was emailed to me this morning. After watching this myself, I felt the need to repent, not only of the way I use words towards others but for the hypocrisy that sometimes [...]

Heroes

We all have heroes. There’s something about these people who say what you wish you could say, do what you wish you could do and live lives that you wish you could be apart of. Now I am not referring to any caped crusader or some imaginary person with unrealistic abilities, I am talking about [...]