A recent comic strip, The Pursuit Strip #16, where I depict the Prohibitionist’s interpretation of Jesus turning water into water (instead of wine) stirred up a little conversation. Rhea the main commentor had some really good questions and comments. I told her that I would post a paper that I wrote a couple summers ago. [...]
The other day I was having a conversation with someone about my comic strip The Pursuit Strip #10. We were discussing the possibility of God impressing on someones heart to extend the invitation because God was working on someones heart in the audience and that person needed just a little bit longer to make a [...]
You may have heard the news, a couple of weeks ago there was a large “wave of religious violence” in Nigeria. “Around 1000 people were displaced, several critically wounded, and every church reportedly destroyed in Shira Yana, Bauchi State, Nigeria on 2 February 2008.” Christianity Today ran a news article titled Churches destroyed in wave [...]
From time to time we all hear about the United States of America being a “Christian Nation.” Many Muslim terrorist hate the U.S. because they believe it is a Christian Nation. Many U.S. citizens desire the U.S. to become a true Christian Nation. Many U.S. citizens believe the U.S. is already a Christian Nation. There [...]
I was able to attend session 3 of a home church conference put on by NTRF. Here are some not I took from session 3 - Elder-Led Congregational Consensus.
The Practice of the Early Church
Session 3 – Elder-Led Congregational Consensus
(Steve Atkerson)
Everyone agrees that Christ is the head of the Church… opinions digress from that [...]
I was able to attend session 2 of a home church conference put on by NTRF. Here are some not I took from session 2 - Participatory Church Meetings.
The Practice of the Early Church
Session 2 – Participatory Church Meetings
(Steve Atkerson)
1 Corinthians 14:26 – What do we learn about the NT church from this [...]
Over the past few weeks I have written on the topic of Christians and the Government. In these posts I discussed my current (and ever changing) views about how I feel Christians should interact within their governments (specifically dealing with American Christians). If you have kept up with these posts you would have noticed that [...]