Easy To Forgive When…

I love books by C.J. Mahaney they are short, profound, and powerful. Here is a quote from a one of his books that come back to often. When I become bitter or unforgiving toward others, I’m assuming that the sins of others are more serious than my sins against God. The cross transforms my perspective. [...]

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Born Again: Soldiers or Babies

In the book, “The Barbarian Way”, Erwin McManus suggests that believers need to rethink what it means to be born again. He writes, “When we are born again, we are dropped not into a maternity ward, but into war zone. Our birthplace is less mother’s womb and more battlefield earth.”McManus says when a person enters [...]

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The Shack: Good, Bad, Or Ulgy?

The people here were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, since they welcomed the message with eagerness and examined the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so. Acts 17:11 (Holman Christian Standard Bible) The Shack, people I find either love it or hate it. I read it and was bothered. Now being bothered [...]

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Book Of The Week.

I finished reading and am actually rereading Tim Keller’s “The Reason For God.” Some books that attempt to show the validity of the Christian faith are deeply philosophical and rough reading. But, Keeler is warm, humble, engaging, and thoughtful, the book is just amazingly well written. The chapters are short enough to engage you each [...]

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Book Of The Week VII

I also just finished The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life by Ramesh Ponnuru. It is an amazing resource on all issues pertaining to life: abortion, stem cell research, and euthanasia. If you are not informed on these salient issues it alone is valuable for this. [...]

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Book Of The Week VI

“”Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are” is true enough, but I’d know you better if you told me what you reread.” I have started trying to re-read great books. I just finished re-reading Gospel and Kingdom by Graeme Goldsworthy it is a great book. He argues in the whole [...]

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Book Of The Week V

The age of the earth and questions about dinosaurs are very common. There is a broad difference between 10,000 years and 14 Billion years. It is very common in some conservative circles to make the age of the earth a divisive issue. If some one believes in an old earth they are liberals and heretics, [...]

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Book Of The Week IV

I love buying Bibles and I just got a new one in the mail last week. It is the New Living Translation Study Bible. The New Living Translation is a good reading translation and the Editorial & Study Note Contributors were very impressive scholars, so I bought it. You can check it out for free [...]

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Forming and Filling

Here is a helpful graphic way to think about the seven days of creation we talked about Sunday Morning. This is a study note from the new NLT Study Bible. The NLT is a great reading translation: I don’t use it for study as I like a translation to be a little more literal. But, [...]

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Book Of The Week III

I have been immersed in the book of Genesis all week in preparing for Sunday Morning. I have been reading a ton, but most sermon prep reading is sections of commentaries that explain just one portion of Scripture. But, this week I became immersed in a little book by the name of “How To Read [...]

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