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This is the 167th passage in “Scripture… As We Live It.” Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken a band/choir with powerful music, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship on Sunday mornings when we are singing with the church, with reverence and awe… (Hebrews 12:28 re-mix) (Please read the first post for an explanation of this series.) If you en...

There are few guys, alive or dead, who can get after me like Jonathan Edwards. The 18th Century Pastor is always throwing strikes when I am in the box. I love it. Here is a quote that is resounding in my mind like a personal soundtrack. It is from his sermon entitled God Glorified in Man’s Dependence. He gave him to dwell amongst us; he gave him to us incarnate, or in our nature; and in the like though sinless infirmities. He gave him to us...

I have been reading Dr. Michael Brown's excellent book called A Queer Thing Happened To America and one of the points that Dr. Brown makes is that the Church sadly has often fought against some sins while not preaching hard against all sins.  His point is that some Christians view the sin of homosexuality as the greatest threat to the world and so they picket and preach and protest against that one sin while not realizing that what has destr...

Hello everyone and welcome back to Deeper Waters where we are diving into the ocean of truth. I did not realize how long my last series would take as I had hoped to start this one around the anniversary, but it was not to be. As readers know, my wife and I recently celebrated our first anniversary and for those interested, I think I can assure you she was very pleased with how her husband treated her. Having gone through a year now, I want to wri...

Two years ago, I wrote a post called “Why Work?” While the post considers several different passages of Scripture, it primarily focuses on one passage. And, as an interesting twist, this passage was written about elders/pastors. That’s right, Paul wrote this passage to church leaders to exhort them to work with their hands… but why? ————————&#...

As I mentioned in the first post in this series, I want to highlight some of the comments that have been left on my blog posts during the past week. Hopefully, this will give more visibility to some of the reasons that I love blogging – dialog and interaction. These comments all come from the five posts that were part of the “Three Views on Christians and Horror” project: Brandon left this comment...

2012 is going to be a good year for speaking! I’m already booked to speak at a couple of great universities like Pepperdine and George Fox and some churches! However, I’m looking to pick up a few dates this fall and winter. Please email me directly if you’re interested and I’m sure we can work something out! Topics: Social justice, child sponsorship/Compassion International, clean water/Blood:Water Mission, sexuality, heal...

Hello everyone and welcome back to Deeper Waters where we are diving into the ocean of truth. Before I begin the next series, which I hope to do tomorrow, I’m going to take the time to answer a message that came to me in the midst of prior series. Not wanting to interrupt an ongoing series at the time, I have decided that this is the opportune moment to look at the claim. The claim revolves the use of ECREE, which is that extraordinary clai...

Two bloggers are examining the term “missionary” and trying to put it into its scriptural context. This is difficult to do, since the term is not really a scriptural term. But, their both doing a good job getting people to think about the term “missionary.” Wes at “a mission-driven life” wrote a post called “Missionary Calling 1.01” which is a follow-up of his previo...

The key to change is continually returning to the cross. A changing life is a cross-centered life. At the cross we see the source of our sanctification (Eph. 5:25-27; Col. 1:22; Titus 2:14). We find hope, for see the power of sin broken and the old nature put to death. We see ourselves united to Christ and bought by his blood. We see the glorious grace of God in Jesus Christ, dying for his enemies, the righteous for the unrighteous. We see our ho...