Loading ...Matthew | June 30, 2010
It has been about three years since I have been home to Nova Scotia. My brother is getting married and I am doing the wedding for him and his future bride. The wedding is going to be at the lake house. It will be relaxing to be home again. I am looking forward to reading, [...]
Matthew | June 29, 2010
It seems like sometimes if people are engaged about the desire for the congregation to grow, people will believe the individual leading this push is “all about numbers” or “growth for numbers.” It almost seems that people create a false either/or option. You want to grow the congregation, therefore you are concerned just with numbers, [...]
Matthew | June 28, 2010
Churches are always looking for preachers and some preachers are always looking for an another job. This causes congregations to call men up to ask them if they are interesting in the vacant position. Years ago, it seemed that churches wanted preachers to send in a resume but it seems now that most churches, well [...]
Matthew | June 24, 2010
At three o’clock today, a group of teen guys, and Steve Curo and I will been leaving to hike Mt. Yale tomorrow. We are going to arrive at the trailhead at 7pm, and spend the night in the woods. Each teen was asked to bring a motivational quote and a Bible verse to share, and [...]
Matthew | June 23, 2010
Sometimes we in the church do theology at the fringes. This means that we jump to either/or conclusions or go to the extreme automatically. You see this mindset with the terminology of “salvation issue.” It seems that sometimes we do look at the bible through the paradigm of this set of glasses. We ask the [...]
Matthew | June 22, 2010
I read this book a while ago, but have not reviewed it. Probably some people are wondering where all of the reviews went. Well, I have been reading scholarly journal articles and commentaries for the 1 Corinthians class at Harding Graduate School. I still have a ton of reading to do for the class, so [...]
Matthew | June 21, 2010
As the world changes, the approach of a missionary to America also must change. In a previous generation, we were probably more Christocentric in evangelism. This means that the knowledge of God was assumed by most people. The struggle was to have them accept Jesus as the Christ. This was not difficult because most people [...]
Matthew | June 16, 2010
There are two famous 14ers on the front range in Colorado. These two peaks are highly traveled, which was clear yesterday as we were coming down. There was five of us yesterday, and we were the first ones to summit Grays and the second party to summit Torreys. There there was one guy that beat [...]
Matthew | June 14, 2010
I have always heard it said, “A preacher should not use sarcasm in the pulpit.” It seemed that the form of speech of sarcasm was off limits for a preacher. It was not an acceptable form of communication for a sermon. Sarcasm had no more right to be used than a dirty joke. The definition [...]
Matthew | June 11, 2010
The culture desires to take over the church. This has always been the case and has always been the problem. Christians must not adapt to the culture in such a way that there is little cultural difference between the lifestyles of Christians and those of this present age. In fact, Barna’s group states that there [...]
