Mar 27
2020
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We Need You, Old People
You have something we cannot google, stream, or download — a life of faith.
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Creation: What Can Be Known is Plain
Creation actually sealed our culpability from the beginning. Because God has created the world, we are without excuse for knowing Him. Thus Genesis 1 marks the moment all mankind became accountable to God.
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Let There Be Light: Creation and Conversion
The creation of light is a picture of conversion. There are so many ways in when Genesis 1-3 shows up in the Bible. Here is one!
Keep ReadingSocial Media: A Clear and Present Danger
The facts are coming in fast: social media is harmful. It is not neutral as we first perceived (or experienced). Having heard much more in recents months than I could compile here, I wanted to pass this on to our church. Consider social media in your home carefully!
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2019
Happy 4th! (Parade Pics)
Happy Fourth of July (Parade Pics)
May 24
2018
On the Southern Baptist Convention
A few weeks ago in leading the Sunday Service pastoral prayer I asked our church for prayer for the Southern Baptist Convention. I doing so I mentioned that there were concerning matters in the forefront of the convention — even in the media. Below I want to speak to those matters, explain the SBC a bit, and offer some clarity on the usefulness and faithfulness of the convention.
Mar 27
2018
Finding Friends in Church Members
I’m a guy who needs about two and half good, serious friendships, and my wife takes up two of those spots. My remaining spot for a half friend may not live close. We may talk once every 6 months. I’m okay with that.
Mar 1
2018
How to Use a Study Bible
A few helpful tips on how to make the best use of a study Bible or commentary.
Jan 10
2018
Can We Not Think God's Thoughts?
It is astonishing the number of well respected and highly honored Bible interpreters who misapply Isaiah 55:8-9 where God says, "My thoughts are not your thoughts, my ways are not your ways." An astonishing number! And it misuse being published in book after book and Bible study after Bible study. Most recently I’ve seen the one and only JI Packer misuse this passage in his renowned book Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God which has over 100,000 copies in print.
At the very least our children learn a lot about the gathered church, her ordinances, and how God is worshiped. More so, in God’s sovereignty, the gathered church may be the very venue he chooses to open a child’s heart to his saving grace
Jul 25
2017
Satan Has Raged Against Me
At one point Martin Luther said of himself, “Satan has raged against me with incredible contriving to destroy or hinder me, so that I have often wondered whether I was the only man in the whole world whom he was seeking".
Mar 30
2017
13 Dead: Four Ways to Pray for FBC New Braunfels
Mar 24
2017
Is Satan Inciting Me To Do Something? Then What?
Far too often we are ignorant of Satan’s schemes to destroy our lives and lead us toward death. Which means we are clueless as to what Satan is doing and how he does it. Do we think Satan is not active today? Do we think his demonic minions have just decided to sit back with their hands folded? Think again. Just because we don’t see demon possession every day like we do in the Gospels does not mean we are not encountering darkness and evil at every turn.