Church Sign: God Bless…

Well, at least there are no hidden beliefs with this church sign.  You can drive by and see what they are passionate about: God Bless America & the KJV Bible

Testimonies from Bible Reading Plan

Yesterday, we concluded our 100-Day Bible Reading Plan.  I have already heard some great comments from those who did it. Some people restarted it today because it helped them so much! In the middle of this process, I have heard great testimonies from people I know closely and those I have never met. I wanted to share it with you to …

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Tips Concerning How to Catch Up on Bible Reading

The last couple of weeks have been super busy.  As I am leading a group of folks through our 100 Day Bible Reading Plan, I have to confess something: I got behind. A few days behind. During ministry, early morning camp schedules, family stuff going on, I got more and more behind in my Bible reading plan.  I also got …

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The Word

We started today’s services by singing “Overcome,” and “Forever.”  I love how God gets certain things across.  I had a plan for today’s services a long time ago, but some circumstances caused me to change some songs.  It wasn’t even until in the middle of the first service how God had woven all these songs and elements together (overcome, perseverance, …

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The Word

The Bible is not a collection of individual stories and treasured sayings.  It is the one overarching narrative of how Jesus is reconciling a people unto himself.

Studying the New World Translation of the Jehovah’s Witnesses

  The following is a message I sent to a friend who is a Jehovah’s Witness.  We have had a couple of conversations about faith and the Word, and our time together has caused me to do some further study.  As a resource to you, I wanted to post some of my findings. I want to thank you again for

Don’t Read the Bible Like Your Yearbook

It’s always an exciting time of the year when students get their yearbooks.  Anticipation rises for so many as they hope to receive endearing messages that they can keep forever. When you receive a yearbook, you know where to turn first – the back.  By flipping to the index, you feverishly search for one word on a particular page – your

My Right-Hand 6-Year-Old

It’s hard to imagine that it has been six years since you were born.  While I wasn’t physically by your side at that moment, God was, and he had been preparing your forever family for a long time. This morning I tried to imagine the setting of your birthdate.  I tried to visualize the rough conditions and the unsure health status of

The 100-Day Bible Reading Plan

I made an announcement at “Knowing Jesus” this year from which I got a lot of feedback.  I told everyone that next Good Friday, we would not do the same program we have done the last 2 years.  Instead of doing a night of worship and teaching from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, we were going to do a worship

The Bible According to Hollywood

I have heard mixed reviews over the weekend concerning the Son of God movie that was released.  The work of Mark Burnett and Roma Downey has been anticipated by many following the History Channel’s The Bible series which was very successful.  I have heard three camps of thought concerning the movie: “It’s the most incredible thing I have ever seen.”