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Hello everyone and welcome back to Deeper Waters where we are diving into the Ocean of Truth. We’ve just finished our Trinitarian Commentary so I thought we should go and take a look at how our whole project went overall. First though, I ask for my usual prayer requests. I first off ask that you pray for me for my continued Christlikeness and that I won’t have as much anxiety and worry in my life. Second, I ask for prayers in my finan...

Dave Black wrote this on his blog today concerning Hebrews 10:24-25: Wow! Does this not suggest the character of our church meetings? Does this not teach us that we are to come together for the purpose of mutual edification? Does this not challenge our deeply entrenched views about “worship”? Should we not suspect The Message of a bit of eisegesis when it renders “let us not neglect our meeting together” as “not avoi...

Yes, it was a scary as it looked. When was the last time you went sledding? ...

But you, O LORD, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head. I cried aloud to the LORD, and he answered me from his holy hill.- Psalm 3:3-4It is amazing to me that in every religion of the world, people pray. Even Buddhist, who in reality don't believe in any god, pray and meditate. In Hinduism, people pray to their house gods. In Catholicism, people pray the rosary and beseech saints. Even atheists, when faced with crisis, c...

This is the 91st passage in “Scripture… As We Live It“: And the Lord’s servant the pastor of the church must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness not put up with teaching different than his own, but fiercely debate anyone who disagree with his theology in order to protect his church from heretical teaching. (2 Timothy 2:24-25a re-mix) (Ple...

I’m sitting here in my office on Sunday morning. Every Sunday (give or take a few) for the past 5 1/2 years I’ve arrived at our building and prepared for our Sunday morning services. I am the worship leader and kind of emcee the service (if you will). Some (perhaps many) think all I do all week is pick out music and play my guitar. As a minister trying to figure out how to awaken people to God in their lives and to live fully ...

We blame ourselves. We feel sick inside. Someone just asked us to do something that we didn’t really want to do and we can’t believe we heard ourselves say YES. We wished we would have said NO. A form of self-hatred rises up within us. We wish we were different, but we don’t know of any other way. We wish we could snap out of it, but we’re not sure how. And so we’re disgusted with ourselves. We’re stuck. Have...

Within the Reformed Calvinist ordo salutis, regeneration precedes faith since it is impossible for totally depraved humanity to respond to God's gift of salvation through His Son apart from the work of the Spirit in conversion (John 6:44). The call of God goes forth to the elect and this call is irresistible. Once the sinner responds to the gospel, they are already regenerated in order to respond to the gospel.The Arminian, obviously, differs w...

Hello everyone and welcome back to Deeper Waters where we are diving into the ocean of truth. It looks like we’re coming to the final part of our Trinitarian Commentary tonight. Isn’t that amazing? We’ve gone through the whole Bible to try to understand the Trinity. I do ask for your prayers first off. First, my continued Christlikeness as I am coming across more bumps on the road that need to be handled. Second, I ask for praye...

Arthur from “the voice of one crying out in suburbia” has written an excellent post about the role of academics in the church called “Three cheers for Greek geeks.” Of course, like Arthur says, there’s no place in the church for “academics for academics sake.” After discussing the simplicity of following Christ and the lack of education of the first disciples, Arthur then points out how academic studies (...