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A Heretic’s Prayer

Posted on: Friday, May 23rd, 2008 in: church, discipleship, philosophy, prayer, questions, service, teaching, tradition, worship

God,
You are so Holy, I hope for the day when you make the Earth like Heaven. I desire so much to do your will and I ask that you feed us and protect me, my family, and The Family from the temptations of the devil. Help us all forgive, just as you forgave us, are [...]

Integrity in Ministry - By Dr. Akin - Part 2

Posted on: Thursday, May 8th, 2008 in: Church Covenant, bible, church, discipleship, fellowship, ministry, pastor, philosophy, teaching, tradition, worship

Let me first say that this is not an attack on Dr. Akin. I personally think that Dr. Akin is a great guy. I truly believe that he wants what he thinks is best for all Christians/Southern Baptists. This critique of his email is merely an attempt to put out a different perspective. My perspective [...]

Integrity in Ministry - By Dr. Akin - Part 1

Posted on: Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 in: Life in the Journey, bible, church, discipleship, fellowship, ministry, philosophy, politics, preaching, sermon, service, teaching, ten commandments, testimony, tradition, worship

A few days ago I received an email sent to all students, staff, and alumni of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. The email from Dr. Akin was an essay concerning Integrity in Ministry. In Part 1 of this post I am merely going to attach this email. Afterwards, I would love to hear what everyone else [...]

Developing a Biblical Ecclesiology Lecture

Posted on: Friday, April 4th, 2008 in: Blogs Worth Mentioning, bible, church, discipleship, elder, fellowship, ministry, overseer, pastor, prayer, preaching, questions, sermon, service, teaching, testimony, tradition, worship

My pastor and friend, Alan Knox, gave a lecture to one of Dr. Black’s (of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary) classes about how his Ecclesiology was developed. He was able to record the lecture and post it to his website. I listened to it, thought it was great, and wanted to share it with you all.
This [...]

Does God Really Care?

Posted on: Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 in: bible, church, discipleship, fellowship, ministry, pastor, prayer, preaching, sermon, service, teaching, tradition

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 [...]

Thoughts on a Christian Nation…

Posted on: Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 in: Kingdom of Heaven, catholic, church, discipleship, fellowship, government, ministry, philosophy, politics, tradition

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 [...]

Christians and the Government - Conclusion

Posted on: Friday, February 8th, 2008 in: church, discipleship, government, ministry, philosophy, politics, service, teaching, tradition

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 [...]

Christians and the Government - The Other Side - Part 8

Posted on: Monday, February 4th, 2008 in: church, discipleship, government, ministry, philosophy, politics, service, teaching, tradition

I recently read this timely post from Baptist Press titled When God’s people fail to vote. I figured it would be good if I included this article as an outside perspective - one that disagreed with my own position(s). There have been many great comments that disagree with me. I think that this article is [...]

Christians and the Court - Part 7

Posted on: Friday, February 1st, 2008 in: church, discipleship, government, ministry, philosophy, politics, service, teaching, tradition

The United States has three branches of government, the Executive branch which is administered by the President. The President enforces the laws that the Legislative branch makes. There is the legislative branch is also know as the Congress. The Congress makes the laws of the U.S. The congress is divided into two parts, the House [...]

Christians and the Pledge - Part 6

Posted on: Thursday, January 24th, 2008 in: church, discipleship, government, ministry, philosophy, politics, service, teaching, tradition

As a child, every morning in school, I stood up with all my classmates and we put our hands over our hearts and in unison recited the Pledge of Allegiance. Only the hippy outcast types refused to say the pledge. I remember seeing one teacher’s blood boil every time time this one girl refused to [...]