Leap Year Engagements & Hermeneutics
It takes more thought than you’d think to figure out which years are leap. Years divisible by 4 are leap, except for the Century. I.e. years ending in -00 are not leap years, unless first 2 digits are also divisible by 4. Got it? So 1700 [...]
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In the Market for a Church? 5 Guidelines for Church-Shoppers
6Are you in the market for a new church? Perhaps you have relocated to a new area, or your current church has recently changed doctrinal positions or has had a split of some sort. Now you are hitting the pavement shopping for a new spiritual [...]
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Kiddies Menu: Children at the Lord’s Table
If you are a young, single, seminoid dude who loves theoretical theological debates on blogs, I’d like to share a tidbit of coaching corner sagacity a mentor of mine graciously offered me: It’s ok to have the topic of pedo-communion on your radar screen, just [...]
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If I were John MacArthur…
This was my first ever blog post. It featured at theCripplegate.com on 13 June 2011 just after John MacArthur had completed preaching through the entire NT. After he read this article Dr. MacArthur contacted me to let me know that my prediction was not far [...]
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Publish or Perish… or Self-Publish
“Publish or perish” is the mantra of academia. I empathize with the impulse preachers have to extend their pulpits to the print media arena. When a person spends all week in the life-changing milieu of God’s eternal truth, there is a fire in his bones to share [...]
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Don’t Buy It: 5 Guidelines for Seminoid Book Shopping
Seminoids are bibliophiles. I get that. In a bookstore we are like drug addicts in a crack house. But seminary is the worst time to be buying books. I know it may sound counter-intuitive, since you are heading into a profession that requires a well-stocked [...]
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Old News is Good News: 4 Reasons to Preach the Old(er) Testament
A pastor asked me what I was preaching in church. I said “Luke in the morning and Micah in the evening.” He was flabbergast. He admitted that if he announced any OT book, his church would empty until he was back into the NT. I am blessed to [...]
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To Go Menu #1
If you want some reading this weekend, here are three links that will assist, inform, and/or make you snicker, in that order)… Search and Trace is an organization that does the heavy lifting of research for you. They act as a search [...]
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