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My kids are growing up. This is filled with all sorts of emotions. Life presents new challenges and circumstances. This is true for any parent. But things are a little different for Christian parents. We actually believe that our kids are not Christians just because we are. Heaven is not an unalienable right like voting at 18. Our children have to actually come to terms with the God of the gospel themselves. This presents an interesting set of ci...

This afternoon, I received news that the evaluation committee passed my prospectus. (A prospectus is a detailed description and plan for writing a dissertation.) So, I am now officially working on my dissertation. For those who may be interested, the title of my dissertation will be “Mutual Edification as the Purpose of the Assembled Church in the New Testament: A Study in Biblical Theology.” For those who may be even more interested,...

Last week, I wrote a short post concerning 1 Corinthians 12:22-25 called “The weaker are indispensable” in which I concluded with the following questions: Who are the people with “weaker” gifts, and how do we demonstrate that they are indispensable and worthy of greater honor? Now, Andy at “aBowden Blog” has written a similar post called “Unequally equal?” in which he considers how some people are “gi...

There are some 11 million abandoned kids roaming the streets of India.  I’ve been aware of that statistic for a while but nothing prepares you for meeting it face to face. This is Puja Ghosh who is just five years old. I had the amazing opportunity to spend some time with her over the past few days and I can confirm that smile is just as beautiful in person. She lives with a family here in the Khalpar slum who found her i...

I wish I could play guitar. I really do. I even own a very nice Fender Stratocaster. But, I never took the time to learn to play, and much of what I did learn on my own, I learned incorrectly and developed bad habits. In a post called “Don’t be an Emotional Cop-Out“, Laura from “Who in the World Are We?” discusses guitar playing and bad habits (from the perspective of emotions): I am a guitar player. I started playin...

When I turned twenty, I was your typical former pastor’s kid living in rebellion – alcohol, clubs, bands, and a peer group nobody’s parents would approve of. Two months before my twentieth birthday, I had just ended a long term relationship – a month before we were supposed to get married. It was rough. I remember returning home the night of my twentieth birthday after having friends visiting throughout the week. My apartm...

This week’s song is The Only Hope by Bebo Norman. I first became a fan of Bebo when I went searching for new Christmas songs to use in our church services. I came across one of his songs while listening to samples in the iTunes store. I liked what I heard and downloaded the album. I was really captured by his lyrics, songs, and voice. I then over time collected a few more of his songs including his newest album titled Bebo Norman. The...

Hello everyone and welcome back to Deeper Waters. I’d like to thank first off Joel for his appreciation of last night’s post. That doesn’t happen often, but sometimes someone does raise a profound point that I want addressed. I hope it was to your satisfaction. I’d also like to thank Paul who left a comment and seemed to certainly be satisfied by it. I do recall when I first began doing apologetics that I thought people wo...

But now, do not therefore be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life.- Genesis 45:5 (NKJV)And God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So now it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.- Genesis 45:7-...