[Part 6] Inward view of self has replaced the soul in the postmodern person. People no longer talk of themselves as souls created in the image of God but as selves seeking fulfillment. This resulted from the disconnect created by belief in evolution. Evolution disconnects the world around us and. [...]
[Part 5] Blind spots make us vulnerable. Cars come with cameras now to show what’s behind you and mirrors have been enlarged to show what’s on your side. Cameras and mirrors are there to provide sight to blind spots in order to avoid accidents. Unless we see the world through. [...]
Publication: Pastoral Letter, August 2016 Dear Friends, Greetings in the Lord! I want to describe what I believe that the Lord is saying to me and pray that it will be useful to you. Together, let’s look at the contrast between “big” and “small”. Certainly, big enterprises have a lot. [...]
[Part 4] The world sees a two dimensional worldview. Jesus saw three dimensionally. Worldview, just like every other view, is affected by the sight of the seer. I am near sighted in one eye and far sighted in the other eye. This affects how I respond to the world around. [...]
Matt 16: 24--27 "Follow Me" Seven Questions 1) If salvation comes by repenting, believing and confessing Jesus Christ as Lord, what does it mean to "believe"? Is it a creed or does it mean to act upon His Word? 2) Jesus walked the Earth 2000 years ago; is He here. [...]
[Part 3] Worldview is the window you’re looking through not just the world you’re looking at. A Biblical worldview looks at the world through the window of Jesus. In other words, to have a Biblical worldview is to see things as Jesus saw them. The worldview of Jesus was embedded. [...]
[Part 2] We left our heroes—Luke, Leia, and Han Solo—with the worshiping, childish, primitive, Freudian Ewoks. Thankfully (a phrase not to be confused with thank God, which implies a personal deity), sophisticated Luke Skywalker knows how to tap into the impersonal force, which just so happens to resemble the teaching. [...]
Publication: Pastoral Letter, July 2016 Dear Friend in Christ: July reminds us that the United States is a nation that was set free from political tyranny by leaders who were willing to give their lives. A total of 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence; later, they were captured, tortured,. [...]
[Part 1] Jesus prayed that God would not take us out of the world, but that He would keep us from “the evil one” (John 17:15). How does that work when there are so many good movies with an embedded message that contradicts Jesus? In every piece of art there. [...]
Most of us have ideas about what it means to be a pastor. Even if you’re not a pastor, you probably have some idea about what it means to be a pastor. But not so many have thought about what it means to be a sheep of a pastor. As. [...]
My daughter ran hurdles in high school until she face planted on one. I don’t know if it was her front foot or back foot that got caught. We weren’t there. The paramedics called us while the ambulance was on the way to the hospital. She knocked herself out and. [...]
Recently I read that the killer of Kitty Genovese died in prison. He was 81 years old. She was 28 years old when he murdered her. Many of us are not old enough to remember the story, but it made national headlines because neighbors who heard her cries. [...]