Be The Fruit

Question: What does a personal relationship with Jesus look like?

In the American Christian culture today, most people talk about having a personal relationship with Jesus.  In fact, it seems that the biblical call to repent and believe has been replaced with “entering into a personal relationship with Christ.”  Trevin Wax wrote an article at Said at Southern some time ago questioning the validity of [...]

Do you love Him for who He is?

I was watching a little TV this weekend and I came across a story on ESPN about NFL rookies having to go to the NFL Hall of Fame.  Apparently, Michael Irvin started this tradition and it became some sort of requirement. 
In the story, Michael Irvin remarked about how special the place is for football players.  [...]

Piper on the Prosperity Gospel

John Piper tells the truth about the prosperity gospel and what our true trust in God looks like.  This is strong.  Thanks for posting this Mitch.

“Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, [...]

Happy Easter! (On the Wednesday after)

Although most of us celebrated the Resurrection of Jesus Christ this past Sunday, I thought I would wish everyone a happy Easter today.  You may be thinking that I was busy so I did not get a chance to blog about Easter so I am doing it now, but that is not the case.
You see, [...]

What are your essentials?

This past Sunday my pastor, Rick White, gave a message on 1 Corinthians 1:10-17.  You can watch the sermon by clicking here.  As you may know, this section of Paul’s letter deals with divisions that existed withing the church at Corinth.  One of Pastor Rick’s points was to “Know the difference between Essentials and Non-Essentials.
The [...]

Rahab’s Lie.

In Joshua chapter 2 we read the story of how Rahab hid the two Hebrew spies from the soldiers that were searching for them.  In verses 4-6, we read how she lied to the soldiers to send them away so that the spies could sneak out later.  There are different theories regarding this, but this [...]

Something to think about.

“…the chief purpose of life is not happiness, but the knowledge of God.”
From:  Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview, by J. P. Moreland & William Lane Craig.

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 [...]

Reflections From Class

I finished my first day of seminary classes yesterday.  The first thing that impressed me was the professors.  The professor in my first class informed us that he gets up and drives to 3 1/2 hours to Nashville from Lexington, KY to teach a 3 hour class then turns around and heads home.  I was [...]