In my personal study today I read through 1 Corinthians 5. The entire chapter is speaking of sexual deviancy. Sadly it is not the Apostle Paul’s rant about the sexual deviant outside the Church, rather those inside the Church. Here is what is written, as recorded in the New American Standard Bible: I wrote to … Continue reading »
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Parenting: How to Plead to Jesus for Your Children
In our worship service yeserday at Calvary Baptist Church, we continued in our study of the Gospel of Mark. We were in Mark 7, which relates the story of the Syrophoenician woman. (Mark 7:24-30) The story relates that this woman had a demon-possessed child and sought after Christ to heal her daughter. What struck me … Continue reading »
Parenting: Turning the Mission into the Mission Field
I am absolutely blown away with how much activity takes place in the lives of the teens in my youth group and even in my own home. A couple nights ago we sat down as a family and synced our calendars. (We use the Google Calendar and highly recommend it) I couldn’t believe how much … Continue reading »
The Easter Story: New Tribes Mission
unPlanned by Abby Johnson: Book Review
Recently I was given a gift copy of unPlanned written by Abby Johnson, a former director of a Planned Parenthood clinic who eventually became a pro-life advocate. My thoughts on this book follow. The Book: I was immediately drawn into unPlanned from the very first chapter. It is in these opening remarks of this book … Continue reading »
My Daily Need, an Excerpt from a Gospel Primer – Milton Vincent
The gospel is so foolish (according to my natural wisdom), so scandalous (according to my conscience), and so incredible (according to my timid heart), that it is a daily battle to believe the full scope of it as I should. There is simply no other way to compete with the forebodings of my conscience, the … Continue reading »
Instructive Interaction: Jesus & John the Baptist
Then Jesus arrived from Galilee at the Jordan coming to John, to be baptized by him. But John tried to prevent Him, saying, “I have need to be baptized by You, and do You come to me? But Jesus answering said to him, “Permit it at this time; for in this way it is fitting … Continue reading »
Four Observations of Christ’s Prayer in Gethsemane: Mark 14
And he said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.” (Mar 14:36 ESV) The time of the cross was imminent. The suffering had begun. Christ had entered the Garden of Gethsemane and pulled aside to pray before the events of … Continue reading »
Parenting, Possession, & Prayer: Demons, Deliverance & Deity
And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them, and scribes arguing with them. And immediately all the crowd, when they saw him, were greatly amazed and ran up to him and greeted him. And he asked them, “What are you arguing about with them?” And someone from the crowd … Continue reading »
Roasting Coffee at Home
I never thought I would do something like this, but I really enjoyed it. Home roasting coffee beans with a hot air popcorn popper…I can check that off my “to do” list now.
