The word "tolerance" is something we hear a lot of today. While its use varies, in most contexts it is used to exhort us to tolerate other people's ideas, beliefs, morals, and lifestyles. One of its greatest implications is that we as people are not to impose our ideas, beliefs, morals, and lifestyles on others.... Continue Reading →
This summer, I have had the opportunity to talk to many people about Jesus, and the hope of eternal life that they can have if they would simply trust their life in His hands and believe that His death on the cross paid for their sin, and His resurrection approved that His sacrifice was sufficient... Continue Reading →
In Luke 9:57-62, Jesus encountered 3 people who either wanted to follow Him or He asked them to follow Him. For all 3 people, in order to follow Jesus, they had to change. For one, it was his ideology of what it meant to follow Jesus. For another, it was his comfort and timing in... Continue Reading →
In my last part in my series on the church I want to discuss something that I think is at the core of Scripture and the heart of God. God's will is to be the will of His church. Period. There is no doubt about that. Matthew 28:18-20, Acts 1:8, and numerous other texts explicitly... Continue Reading →
While this series has taken me longer to write than I first thought, this topic has come at just the right time. With all the hype going on with the gay-marriage voting in North Carolina, and President Obama’s statement soon after, I find that this post could not have better timing. At the end of... Continue Reading →
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