22 Mistakes Pastors Make in Practicing Church Discipline Article 09.18.2015 Pastors sometimes make the following mistakes regarding formal church discipline. 1. They fail to teach their congregation what church discipline is and why they should practice it. 2. They fail to practice meaningful membership, which includes (1) teaching people what […]
Yearly Archives: 2017
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A team building event within a human resources group that sits within a large, liberal, progressive western corporation is typically not the sort of place one sees many opportunities for sharing the gospel. But sometimes, it does. And this time, it did. I want to share this recent experience […]
On the one side, we have the Christian community, and on the other side, we have the pagan community. The Christian community is made up of those individuals whom God has personally brought into covenant relationship with himself. The pagan community, on the other hand is made up of everyone […]
Robert Ennis defines critical thinking as “reasonable, reflective thinking that is focused on deciding what to believe or do.” What should I think about a certain claim or proposition? What should I do in a particular set of circumstances? Nancey Murphy writes, “If Christianity in the abstract is to be […]
The tutorial below is a very basic overview of the history of the Bible focusing on the period beginning with John Wycliffe and moving forward. Your feedback and welcomed and desired. History of the Bible
I spend a good deal of my time engaging people who are hostile to Christian belief. This includes those who outside as well as many who claim to be inside the Christian community. There is no question that we need to stand against those claims that exalt themselves against the […]
The main objective of this post is to interact with the Biblical teachings on the issue of doubt within the context of Christian apologetics. For some, the idea of epistemic certainty is not only an impossibility, but it is also one of the most arrogant claims anyone could make. For […]
A lot is being written and stated these days regarding the church’s responsibility where the issue of racism is concerned. The torrent of views coming from within and without conservative evangelical circles is mind-boggling and at a minimum, disjointed and confusing. Somehow, the church has not been saddled with the […]