I’m just about to head off to a wedding rehearsal. I have been asked to do the sound and recording at a wedding tomorrow – the first time I’ve done sound for something other than a church service. Of course the wedding is in the auditorium our church uses and will use all the same…
I received a late entry so am going to post it here. This one comes from my buddy James from What Is This. Email From God: Depend on Me Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever – Hebrews 13:8 My Child, A lot of adults you know probably run their lives based…
This week’s BlogSwap entry is provided by Joe Missionary and is on the subject of How To Pray For Missionaries. Take it away Joe… Brothers, pray for us (1 Thes 5:25). Before Jane and I left the States, we of course spoke before a lot of groups. A common question was, “How can we pray…
Today is BlogSwap 3 and it was an open assignment – people were free to write about anything they wanted, and could even submit a favorite article they posted in the past. Despite it being a “freebie” with no real effort required, several people did not participate. Tsk tsk! Here is the list of participants:…
1 Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me:It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. 3Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also…
I found a link to a great little article on Dead Man Blogging. The article is written by R.C. Sproul Jr and deals with being set apart. I don’t know what shows are on TV, and I don’t know what songs are on the radio. I couldn’t name enough current NBA players to fill a…
I often find Amazon is an interesting place to get a guage on how people feel about books. Anybody is free to post a review there so popular books often compile several hundreds reviews. The Purpose Driven Life, which places 47th on the Amazon sales list, currently has a whopping 561 reviews with several more…
It seems GMail (Google’s mail service) invites are a new currency on the Web. I have a whole stack of them, so if you are one of the five or six people left who doesn’t have an account, send me an email or post here and I’ll get you hooked up.
Today I am going to carry on the discussion of baptism that I began yesterday. Or more correctly, I will begin it again. Yesterday I asked some questions that were of a rambling nature rather than being presented logically. Today I am going to try to bring a more systematic approach to the different views…
Over the past few days I have been doing some thinking about baptism. I come from a Reformed/Presbyterian background and spent the first 20-some years of my life in churches that practiced infant baptism (the Protestant flavor of it). Of course these churches also practice adult baptism when an unbaptized person becomes a believer. Several…
Yesterday I returned from a great week-long vacation at my cottage. Just about the whole family drove up from Atlanta to join us there (with the exception of my father who had to work) and we had a wonderful, fun, relaxing time together. I took quite a few photos, though not nearly as many as…
I love to read. It is unusual for me to have fewer than three or four books on the go at any given time. The two topics I tend to read are theology and the Second World War. Strange bedfellows, I agree. My interest in World War II began in my grandfather’s home many years…
I sent out the topic for next week’s BlogSwap. If you indicated an interest in participating you should have received it. If you did not, please let me know ASAP and I’ll send it your way. Next week we’ll have an open topic so people can write about whatever they like. I look forward to…
I am (finally) starting to get some people spamming the forums. Actually, I think it’s only one person, but he posts using different names and IP addresses so I can’t seem to ban him. In order to keep him out I may have to turn off anonymous posting, meaning only people with registered accounts in…
I am going to continue today with some thoughts from my Bible readings. This morning I read Revelation 6 (don’t even ask why yesterday was Corinthians but today was Revelation). In the previous chapter we read about a scroll sealed with seven seals that was in the right hand of God. A loud voice called…
While I was reading the Bible last night I came across 2 Corinthians 11 which speaks about Paul’s defense against false apostles. It seems that after Paul left the church at Corinth false apostles moved in and began to oppose Paul’s message and authority. While Paul was confident about the believers he had left behind…
Chris is a very dear friend of mine who does not always like to adhere to what I consider normal social conventions. I can’t say it is a bad thing that he does not constantly comply with what society says he is supposed to do and who he is supposed to be, but I must…
In this series of articles we are looking at what God’s Word says about community within the church. To facilitate this we have drawn out all of the verses in the New Testament that contain the words “one another” or “each other” and found that they point to four themes: unity, hospitality, devotion and edification.…
Life is made up of seemingly endless decisions. We face decisions every day of our lives – some are as minor as what to wear or what to eat, while others may be huge, impacting our lives or the lives of hundreds or even millions of others. As Christians it is crucial that we understand…
Yesterday my sister and brother-in-law arrived (late) from Atlanta with their two children. One of those children is my little nephew Joshua whom I had never seen until yesterday. I am taking vacation for the next week to hang out with them. It’s a much-needed vacation. Or much-wanted anyways. I listened to an excellent sermon…