For reasons I cannot quite ascertain (though I am hoping they are not prophetic), I have been thinking a lot lately about the issue of whether children who die in infancy are automatically ushered into heaven. In other words, what happens to children when they die? I have heard various answers to this question, and…
Michael Coren, if you are not familiar with him, is a newspaper columnist and television call-in show host in Toronto. Though I never looked into his denominational affiliation, I always assumed he was an evangelical based on the topics and guests on his show. When The Passion of the Christ released several months ago, he…
Yesterday afternoon at about 4:30 I posted my review of John Elredge’s book Epic at Amazon. The review showed up a couple of hours later, and already has had 9 people vote on whether or not my review was helpful. At this point the voting is 2 for and 5 against. That is pretty typical…
John Eldredge’s books have become wildly popular among Christians. The Sacred Romance and Wild at Heart have sold millions of copies and have firmly established Eldredge as one of the most-read Christian authors. Wild at Heart has been studied in men’s groups across the world, giving Eldredge a wide reach and his teachings great acceptance.…
It takes a brave man to write another book geared towards convincing unbelievers that being good simply isn’t enough to earn God’s favor. There are so many similar books available and most unbelievers have heard the arguments so many times that they simply fall on deaf ears. Andy Stanley, though, wrote How Good Is Good…
As Christians we believe that the Bible is the word of God. We believe it is, as it says of itself, “living and breathing, sharper than a two-edged sword.” We believe that the Bible is the greatest revelation of God – despite the incredible beauty of nature, it pales in comparison to what we find…
There are many different types of preaching. Generally they can be divided into five categories, though you must realize that sometimes a single preacher can utilize multiple styles even in a single message. The five main types are: Anecdotal – Preaching based primarily on the recounting of stories which convey a moral lesson. Biographical –…
At the conference I attended this weekend, I heard the powerful testimony of Richard Ganz as he gave his reflections on thirty years of Jewish evangelism. Richard is Jewish, and was at one time not only a practicing Jew, but a very strictly practicing Jew. His testimony caused me to think about some verses from…
At the conference I attended Friday and Saturday there was a worship leader, but rather an old-school one. We sang only hymns and were accompanied by only organ or in one case, with piano. While most of the hymns were traditional (by which I mean old) there were quite a few that were more modern.…
I am off to the Sola Scriptura conference entitled “Presenting the Truth in a Truthless Age.” The speakers are Rich Ganz, James White and Steve Beck. I am an avid reader of White’s blog and know Rich personally, so am looking forward to this one! The conference is geared towards evangelizing different groups – Muslims,…
Sometimes I read a bit of satire that is so obvious that I know I should have thought of it myself. I’m a clever guy, so why couldn’t I have come up with this brilliant idea? Anyways, LarkNews wrote a hilarious article about a Christian reality show where several pastors vye for the attendance of…
The media was buzzing early this week with news about one of those shockingly obvious studies people like to carry out. In this particular study, 1,792 adolescents aged 12 to 17 were interviewed by psychologists about their television viewing habits and their sexual activity. Lo and behold, kids who watch a large amount of television…
There have been several times over the past few weeks when I have been challenged on my Calvinist theology. People have not been confrontational, but I believe by-and-large have been honestly seeking answers and have asked my opinion on various matters. They generally come from an Arminian background and truly want to discover the truth…
Once again I’ve got some GMail invites available if anyone wants to join the rest of the world in nabbing one of these free accounts. It’s an alternative to Hotmail and the other free accounts that gives you a lot of space for storage (500x more than Hotmail). I think most people use them as…
BlogSwap 5, after a short delay, is finally upon us. This week’s subject was “Devotional” and it seems to have been a tough one as many people chose not to participate, believing they couldn’t do justice to a devotional. Others were, of course, just too busy (while others just procrastinated until it was too late)!…
For the past three years my church has been meeting in a local high school. Our contract expired one year ago and at that time the school board tried to raise our rent but we somehow talked them out of it and got a one year extension. Our contract was once again up for renewal…
If you’ve heard about the movie “Woman, Thou Art Loosed” you probably realized it was only a matter of time before I wrote about it! If you haven’t, well, ignorance is bliss. “Woman, Thou Art Loosed” is, of course, the title of the bestselling book by T.D. Jakes that deals with encouraging women who have…
This morning I began reading Arnold Dallimore’s biography of Charles Spurgeon. This follows an excellent speech on Spurgeon’s formative younger days by Phil Johnson that I listened to while driving to Atlanta. I realized as I heard the speech that I knew very little about Spurgeon. When I saw the biography on my sister’s shelf…
For the first time ever, I am posting a picture of myself to this site. It’s a bit of a scary proposition, really. Not only am I terribly unphotogenic, but I’m also more than just a little bit camera shy. But I figured if I have to post a picture of myself, it may as…
I have driven the I-75 from Detroit to Atlanta several times now. Each time I have noticed the rather imposing structure known as Solid Rock Church which is located in Monroe, Ohio. It is as much a campus as it is a church as it has several buildings spread over a rather large property. As…