Archive for May, 2009
Curse Reversing Love of Jesus
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. - Matthew 5:4 Jesus Christ has reversed the curse of death! We mourn because of sin. We mourn because of the consequences of living for the world and our own flesh, under the leadership of the devil. Blessed are those who mourn, since now [...]
Solving the Problem of Death Audio Message
LISTEN HERE Preached at Clearview Baptist Church Sunday, May 17 Synopsis In 1 Corinthians 15, the Apostle Paul makes the case that Christians survive death via resurrection. This is good news for folks who long to live, as all people were designed to do. It is amazing, however, how people [...]
Why Me? God and the Meaning of Life by Steven B. Cowan
Dr. Steve Cowan, who has taught me more than perhaps any other human on the planet, and who graciously wrote the foreword to Contend, has contributed a short article on the meaning of life from the Christian worldview perspective to the Patheos website. You should check it out, it is very [...]
Birmingham Theological Seminary
Whenever people ask where I went to seminary, I usually go into an explanation of BTS as an institution, and why, by God's grace, I chose to go there. It is not your mother's seminary. It began with a different vision than most educational institutions for pastors and other ministry-related [...]
“Ida” and Biased Reporting
I pulled up Google this morning, and sure enough, with their opening page artwork, they are promoting "Ida" the supposed ancestor of humans. "Ida" is a recently-found lemur like fossil, that naturalist scientists are becoming drunk over. Media outlets are eating the story up! Of course, hype sells [...]
Thank You Clearview
Page and I had a wonderful time at Clearview Baptist Church Sunday morning. I brought a message from I Corinthians 15 called Cryopreservation of Christ-preservation: Solving the Problem of Death. Thanks to the staff and membership for making us feel so at home. It is truly amazing how [...]