Yesterday at church during the message the minister talking about forgiveness talked about how forgiveness is the core of the new covenant and quoted Jeremiah 31: 31-34 and Hebrews 8: 7-12.
7For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another. 8But God found fault with the [...]
To many times we’ve made Christianity about us the Christian and how the Bible applies to us and changes us (which it does) but in making that the focus of our journey we miss the true reason the bible applies to us and changes us: for the sole purpose of bringing glory to God because [...]
“During the Eucharist, the child of God remembers the past in thanksgiving, experiences the grace of God in the present, and looks forward to the great feast promised in heaven.” – Bill Hull
As I finish up my thoughts about how the church (as a whole) and specifically in my ministries have not given the importance due to training and equipping church members to do the work God has prepared for us and them to do in advance (Eph 2:10 & 4:11-12) there is something we can do [...]
I’ve been reading N.T. Wrights book [Simply Christian][1] and I just finished chapter 11, Worship. It’s really interesting that I just listened to a podcast about using Revelation (the last book in the bible) as worship and now he goes into this chapter on worship talking about chapter 5 & 6 of Revelation [...]
I am teaching a workshop for guys tomorrow at the Florida Christian Youth Convention on 2 Samuel 23: 8-39 on David’s Mighty Men. I found this great post that breaks down this passage and breaks down the definition of mighty in Hebrew.
“As David grew into this position of leadership, we see him surrounded by [...]
When our group came back from CIY Summer Conference this summer is was great to see all the teenagers doing their daily devotions. They were keeping each other accountable in love and talking about what they were learning, it was great. But as the first 30 days finished up and we started the [...]
I have been meaning to post that I have 3 invites to ebible.com. If you are looking to get into the beta leave a comment and I’ll send one your way. Obiviously its only good for the first 3 commentors.
Now my take on ebible.com. I really like the social aspects of ebibe.com. [...]
Last night as my wife, my daughter and I were driving home from Dora the Explorer Live, I started to think about the old adage about if someone was to look at you checkbook they could tell a lot about you, and Jesus saying, where your treasure is there your heart is also. We [...]
Sometimes I find myself amazed and reminded that Christianity is not for the faint of heart. Its no where near as easy as we have made it throughout the last 1700 years since Constantine moved it from and underground movement to an accepted and manipulable religion. Now this isn’t a time to bash [...]
