“You have a subtle gift for comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.” Dr. Dan Wilson, speaking to me. At first I wasn’t sure how to take that statement, but it’s grown on me in the last year or so. I like it because it means that, hopefully, my ministry more and more consistently reflects [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Gospel’
Comfort and Affliction
Posted in Christianity, Culture and Worldview, Uncategorized, tagged afflicition, Church, comfort, Gospel on March 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Giving Jesus a Bad Name
Posted in Christianity, Culture and Worldview, tagged Anne Rice, Benny Hinn, Ghandi, Gospel, Pat Robertson, Russell Moore, Ted Haggard, Westboro Baptist on July 30, 2010 | 4 Comments »
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” Ghandi Author Anne Rice recently announced that she is renouncing Christianity. I can understand her feelings. It is quite easy to look at the world today– full of legalistic, condemning statements, judgmental attitudes, hatred spewed publically in the [...]
Salvation: What’s in it for me?
Posted in Christianity, tagged Gospel, Jesus, salvation; Craig Blomberg on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I read the quote in the book Making Sense of the New Testament by Craig Blomberg: “Simply professing to follow Jesus is inadequate, especially if one does so merely for personal gain. The path of true discipleship is the road to the cross– death to self, deinal of the ‘triumphalism’ that perverts the Gospel into [...]
Who is my Neighbor?
Posted in Christianity, relationships, tagged Alvin Reid, evangelism, Garth Brooks, Gospel, Reformissionary, Steve McCoy, suburbia on July 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This summer I’m adjusting to the self-controlled schedule of online classes. I’m taking Introduction to Evangelism. I know, I’m taking an intro. class my last semester of seminary. To share with you a moment of honest transparency and confession, I put it off until the last minute, praying they might change the core curriculum for [...]
Remember the True Gospel
Posted in Bible Study, Christianity, tagged Apostle Paul, Christian, Christian life, Christian living, Christianity, Galatians, God, Gospel, Jesus on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is an exegesis of Galatians 1.1-10 for Hermeneutics, Fall 2008 REMEMBER THE TRUE GOSPEL GALATIANS 1.1-10 Main Idea of the Text: There is only one true Gospel of Jesus Christ, and any diversion from that gospel demands condemnation. I. Paul has both an authority and calling from God. 1.1-2 II. God’s grace and peace [...]
