From the monthly archives:
This is the series I spoke about last week, the series on returning to (or discovering) intimacy with God. Since this is a fairly deep yet very important topic, I’ll be keeping the posts very short and to the point, that way one could use this series as a daily devotional for its duration. This [...]
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I have to apologize to the readers. Both Tiffany and I have a tendency to be very critical of Christ followers (although many who we speak about are not truly believers). Going to church makes you no more a Christian than going to a garage makes you a mechanic. I read a phenomenal post by [...]
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Well for any church leader or passion-driven Christ follower, this is Tiffany to give you a must-read book suggestion. Growing True Disciples written by George Barna is the book for you. I must say, I haven’t read a book like this in a long time. It was hard to put it down. Before I started [...]
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Someone mentioned that I should include the way to be saved on this blog. Simply put, Jesus is the way to be saved. Salvation is about a person, not a formula or step-by-step program. As much as people like to make it into a simple bulleted PowerPoint presentation, salvation really is much more than that. [...]
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One of the most common forms of discipleship that I see across America is Sunday school. For at least the last 100 years this has been a staple of Western Christianity. Originally Sunday school was a family-oriented event, and then children and adults were separated more and more by an increasing generation gap. This cultural [...]
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This is part 3, the final post of a series on the origin of the New Testament. In the fourth century this is all basically brought to a conclusion. The testimony on the canon from Eusebius (the great church historian) is very important, but it doesn’t get us much further than that. He establishes three [...]
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This is part 2 of a series on the origin of the New Testament. So as Martyr established, we know that the apostle’s letters were being read all over in Christian churches during the 2nd century. It only took a few more decades before substantial lists of the New Testament books began appearing. One of [...]
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This is part 1 of a series on the origin of the New Testament. So how exactly did we get the New Testament canon? Who decided what is Scripture and what is not? Are there any disputes about any of this? Let’s go through this very briefly just to get an idea. I learned a [...]
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I’ve been getting some heated emails lately from readers about my latest tattoo. For those of you who don’t know, both my wedding band and my rib are tattooed. One email I want to draw your attention to says: “So many young people are getting tattoos these days. In Leviticus 19:28, the Bible says: ‘Ye [...]
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1 Corinthians 1:26-28 “Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame [...]
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This is part 4 of a series on Mary, the Mother of Jesus. This is the final post in the series. “Since Mary is Jesus’ mother, the fact that she is also the Mother of God is inescapable, for if Mary is the mother of Jesus, and if Jesus is God, then Mary is the [...]
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This is part 3 of a series on Mary, the Mother of Jesus. Well, is praying to Mary biblical? Let’s look at this prayer: Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for [...]
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I (Dan) got a new tattoo yesterday. I got theophaneia on my left rib, which is Greek for “appearance/manifestation of God.” It is the root word from which the name Tiffany is derived, my wife’s name. Since God created Eve out of Adam’s rib, I figured it would be fitting to get the Greek root [...]
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This is part 2 of a series on Mary, the Mother of Jesus. The Roman Catholic Church maintains that Mary was sinless throughout her life. “But by a special intervention of God, undertaken at the instant she was conceived, she was preserved from the stain of original sin and its consequences.” (The Immaculate conception and [...]
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Tiffany asked me to post this: Is there really such a thing as “negative calorie” foods? Your body burns calories by digesting food, just as it does by maintaining many other biological and bodily functions. This is the concept behind the idea of “negative calorie” foods. The idea that there are negative calorie foods—foods that [...]
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This is in response to an email I was forwarded. I just want to share just a little with you about Mary, and how she fits into the plan with Jesus. The email reads: “I’M MOVING HER TO YOUR HOUSEPlease keep the Blessed Mother moving from house to houseOur Mother Walked Through My House,And Took [...]
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