A funny thing happened at Element on a recent Sunday morning, I was making a sermon illustration and it turned out better than I ever dreamed. If you missed it, this is what happened. I showed everyone in the room a 20$ bill, it was easily identified by most...
We spent the last 4 months going through the beatitudes, we are now continuing on to the rest of the Sermon on the Mount. As we rounded out the beatitudes a lot of you mentioned that you had never heard them explained the way we talked about them. You also...
CS Lewis in the book the weight of glory writes, " Glory suggests two ideas to me, of which one seems wicked and the other ridiculous. Either glory means to me fame, or it means luminosity." He is speaking of glory for ourselves (he says he doesn't want fame and...
Why isn't Communion, the Eucharist or the Lord's Supper, mentioned in the creeds of the church? This could be a very short answer, but I will do my best to string it out a bit. The Nicene Creed came about in 325AD and it was essentially a way to combat Gnosticism...
In the Nicene Creed, one of the most quoted and respected creeds, it says, "We acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins." What does that mean? Did they believe baptism saved a person? One of the things that we, westernized people, like today is what we...
I have a relative who has been grilling me about some verses and brought up John 14:14, which he says can't be true since we clearly don't get everything we ask for from God. Do you have any insight? Do I have any insight? I have an opinion about everything. In...
I like the Walking Dead, I mean who doesn’t like zombies being mowed down during the apocalypse. What is easy about being a Zombie is that your life is over, you just walk around looking for something living to eat its brains…that’s it, nothing else. That is how a...
I would like to know your thoughts on a believer dating an unbeliever. I've talked to several people of faith, and been looking through scripture, and cannot find anything concrete. Please give me your honest opinion about this. When you say "people of faith" I am...
In the last blog I talked about how we are too often defined by what we consume and not our legacy that we are to leave behind us. This misunderstanding of our calling has led ultimately to our misunderstanding of everything including love. It is why today fathers...
I’ve been wanting to talk about something for awhile, its more like a soapbox type issue for me so I have been waiting until I can work it in on a Sunday morning...but that won’t happen for awhile so I am going to blog about it. Sunday morning I was talking to a...
