Apparently this made a hit with Skelly’s Worship and Young Adult Pastor…
Acknowledging the distance we have all moved theologically, I said:
We all believed those things, but then we grew up and read the Bible for ourselves.

Salvation:  You can do nothing to earn it, but once havign received it, you forfeit everything in return.

I was with some fellow American believers the other day and we were looking through a collection of old songbooks that they had.  Some predated me, but others brought back some songs that I sang as a teenager.  It was somewhat humorous remembering some of the songs that were so shallow from that era. We [...]

Calvinists poking fun at themselves.  Who says that the Sovereign Grace crowd has no sense of humor?

David Fitch has announced a Missional Non-Conference (no fees, no one selling anything) in Ft. Wayne, Indiana January 3.
If you are interested in attending, he’d like for you to email.  You can get more information at David’s blog:
Missional Non-Conference.

With deference to the prolific memorable dialog from Doc Holiday in Tombstone, I have a new movie quote from a movie not widely viewed, but which I have come to enjoy.
The movie is “Stranger Than Fiction” and it follows IRS agent Harold Crick as he begins to hear the narration of his life by author [...]

It is one of the hardest things to explain. Especially to grieving families. Can you assure them their child is in Heaven. I have always attempted to do so, though I often admitted that my Scriptural validation for my belief was more or less founded in the goodness of God and His [...]

My wife got into a spiritual conversation with some co-workers and one asked this question: “Why didn’t Jesus write the New Testament?” Her co-worker said that it would have been easier for him to trust the Bible’s accuracy and weight if he knew that Christ had written the New Testament, rather than having it left to people to remember what He said and record it.