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If you followed the link in my previous post “Disregard 1 Corinthians 11-14“, and read the quotes, you probably noticed that the author quoted Emil Brunner’s book The Misunderstanding of the Church (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1953). I thought you might enjoy some excerpt from the Brunner’s preface: What is the Church? This question poses the unsolved problem of Protestantism. From the days of the Reformation to our o...

Hello everyone and welcome back to Deeper Waters, a blog devoted to helping readers dive into the ocean of truth and swim for all its worth! Our subject of discussion the past few months has been the doctrine of God. Our guide for this study has been the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas, which can be read for free at newadvent.org. Our topic tonight is the divine beatitude and we’ll be asking if God is the beatitude of each of the blessed...

A few months ago, I sat in a little room for two days and read my book into a microphone that was essentially bigger than my face. I kept saying words incorrectly. Easy words. Like “rediscover” and “understand.” My voice started getting rough and I thought I began to sound like a man. The producer assured me I didn’t. But you can decide for yourself. My book (read by yours truly, in quite possibly ...

Frank at “Reimagining Church” has published a letter from Jon Zens to Jim Belcher, author of Deep Church, in a post called “An Analysis of Jim Belcher’s Deep Church.” Much of the analysis focuses on the manner that churches meet together. For example, Jon writes: You assert, “Since the Bible does not give us enough information to construct a worship service, we must fill in the blanks” (p.137).  Why do we fee...

Seriously? Yep. From now until September 30th here’s all you have to do: Send me an email (info “at” yoursecretname.com) with a copy of Your Secret Name receipt from Amazon (Paperback or Kindle version). Post a short review of Your Secret Name on Amazon. Email me (info “at” yoursecretname.com) with the subject line AUDIO BOOK. That’s it. I’ll then email you a link where you can download of free cop...

click on image for photo credit Thankfully we have brothers and sisters in Christ who are faithful to remind us of our responsibilities and privileges in Christ. This is often sweetly experienced when we encountered various trials in life. Our faithful kin in Christ remind us of that familiar passage in James 1: (Jam 1.2) Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds The purpose, we are reminded as we keep reading, is to m...

In my previous post, “Internet Ministry: What is it?,” I defined “internet ministry” as follows: “Internet ministry” is the use of online services, apps, functions, and technologies in order to serve people with the intention of helping those people grow in maturity towards Christ. What what kind of service can be included in “internet ministry”? Is this evangelism or discipleship? The short answer is, &#...

I’m so proud of my wife. She’s part of a group of pastors’ wives who have started an amazing ministry called Leading and Loving It. If you’re a woman in ministry or even more specifically married to someone in ministry you need to check out this incredible resource. This fall they’ll introduce their first virtual conference for pastors’ wives and women in ministry. I could not be more excited for them....

Anne Jackson’s second book, Permission to Speak Freely – Essays and Art on Fear, Confession and Grace releases today. Anne decided to share seven essays of which one of them is below. To read the rest of the essays, check out the links at the end. Anne is also giving away a copy of her book to two commenters, chosenat random, on Friday. So check out the question at the end and leave a comment to be entered to win. Yo...

So, you’ve made it to the end. But it’s not really the end. You’ve just read six essays of my new book Permission to Speak Freely: Essays and Art on Fear, Confession and Grace. This is the final one…for today anyway. There are still 22 essays you haven’t read, plus all the art and poetry and other things that have been compiled into this lovely four-color book. But fear not, you can pick up a copy ...