Be The Fruit

Your spouse is part of “all things.”

How is  your marriage going?  Is it easy? Is your relationship with your spouse working the way you want it, or are there a few things you want them to change to make the relationship better?
Anyone who has been married for any time will recognize that marriages are not easy.  Although the positives are great, [...]

Wherever you are is where you will be.

What are you doing while you are there?
Do you have a great goal for your life that you are trying to attain?  Goals are great, but sometimes we get caught up in the achieving of such goals that we forget to appreciate what is happening in our life along the way.  Our lives are not [...]

What not to wear.

One night in my personal evangelism class we engaged in one of those great rabbit-trail discussions that totally gets off topic.  It all started while we were discussing points from one of the chapters in The Soul Winner by Charles Haddon Spurgeon.  The beginning point was Spurgeon’s insistence that preachers should posses a holiness of character in order [...]

Evangelism in the workplace.

I am currently taking a Personal Evangelism class, and one of the objectives of the class is to teach us how to equip others to do evangelism.  I have been really trying to get my mind wrapped around what evangelism should look like for the non-professionals in the church.  To figure that out, I have [...]

Keys for Soul-Winning

From The Soul-Winner by Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
Spurgeon lists eight key qualifications that a preacher must have in order to reach men and be the instrument to save their souls.

Not an ignoramus – Don’t be ignorant about the content of which you are preaching. “being to a great extent ignorant of the things of God himself, I [...]

Biblical Counseling

I just finished up the lecture time for my Gender, marriage, and sex class a little while ago.  8 am to 8 pm on Tuesday, 8 am to 5:30 pm on Wed, and 8 am to 8 pm tonight with lunch and supper breaks as well.  Long days, but I never got bored. 
This was my [...]

Warning Signs of Sin

One of the topics we discussed today was the purity of marriage.  This topic lead to a brief discussion on internet pornography.  Dr. Scott shared that he keeps on guard and watches 3 signs that almost always lead to sin. These signs are:
Isolation – Desire – Means (Provisions)
If you are alone or isolated with a [...]

Tis the season to be jolly?

Christmas carols paint a picture of the Christmas season as a wonderful joyous occasion.  We hear about peace on Earth, joy to the world, and how it tis the season to be jolly, fa ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra.  Are we really that jolly?  Are we really at peace?
Let’s face it, [...]

Note from my thought journal.

I have been reading The Confessions written by Augustine this week to wrap up my assignments for my church history class.  I had to read and keep a thought journal for additional credit.  Here is a thought some of you will appreciate.
The thought comes from reading pages 266-276 from my version where Augustine writes about [...]

Church Discipline

We just began studying First Corinthians in my small group.  We worked through the first six chapters this week.  In chapter five, Paul deals with a report he has received that indicates that a man “has his father’s wife” within the Corinthian church.  Paul rebukes the people within the church for not dealing with the [...]