It’s great to see little churches doing effectively what the big churches are still trying to figure out: take a hint from Starbucks and Barnes & Noble, and start building community the way our culture responds to it. Bridgewood: ‘A church for life’Everyone is welcome to congregate before or after…
Do Heaven and Hell Exist, pt. ii
Well, last night was a good night! Went to church and gave my talk on the existence of Heaven and Hell. Had a good crowd show up. Unfortunately, as usual, I had far more prepared than I could deliver in 45-minutes. :: Sigh :: So, I’ve put the entire manuscript…
Mormons, Church Growth, and the Global South
Seems the old meme that the Mormon faith (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) is the fastest growing faith in the world has become officially dated. KIDK TV news, out of Idaho Falls is reporting: “…Since 1990, Seventh Day Adventists, Assemblies of God and Pentecostal groups have grown…
Hearers of many things and will have learned nothing…
I stumbled across an interesting passage from Plato’s Phaedrus (translated by Benjamin Jowett) the other day. (Or, check out the published translation.) It seemed relevant to me as I am wrapping up my research on Heaven & Hell in preparation for my presentation at church this coming Wednesday. I lean…
Staple and Leather
Hey, guys. I’m trying out a desktop client called w.bloggar to upload this article, and a couple images. This image is one of the first images I took with the little 3-megapixel camera I bought my wife. I’ve not used the camera much, but I was impressed with what it…
Cheeseface!
My incomparable daughter, Elisabeth, taken about two months ago. She was about a year and three months old when this picture was taken by my wife. Sadly, it’s my wife’s camera, and so I don’t usually have it to take many pictures. Hopefully, that’ll change, and I’ll be able to…
Do Heaven and Hell exist?
I’ll be teaching a class this next month. I’m deep in the middle of research for it now. Believe or Not?Do you believe everything you read…or not? When it comes to the claims of the Bible you have to ask yourself if you believe it…or not? Can you believe what…
This is easy.
Never realized how easy it is to set up a blog with WordPress. This is pretty sharp. Now, let’s see if I can come up with something to write about. Of course, this being the first post of the blog, there’s literally nothing to write about except yet further inane…