Know Why You Believe What You Believe

Know why you believe what you believe.  What seems to be such a simple statement can bring about complicated implications.  In order to know the why, we must also know the what; and in order to know the what, we must also know the why.  Everyone believes something.  An atheist believes, though it be in …

Pray To Be Sent, Not Safe

"Lord, keep us all safe today." "I pray for a hand of protection over everyone in this room." "May we all have a sense of security as we part ways today." All of us have heard either these exact prayers or variations of these prayers.  They saturate our comfortable, American, churches.  They permeate our culture.  …

Book Review & Summary: The Mentoring Church

Phil Newton has written not only an incredibly academic work, but one that is highly practical and intensely pastoral.  In The Mentoring Church, he takes largely a case-study approach as he looks at not only biblical models, but modern models of mentoring in ministry. After first laying a biblical foundation for why we, as churches, …

Does God Exist? Evolution

For you, the word “evolution” may stir emotions of anger, for others, it may stir emotions of excitement.  Either way, evolution is a matter that has been and continues to be hotly debated. In recent years, there were discoveries of what certain scientists would state to be various stages of evolutionary development.  A Neanderthal being …

Does God Exist? Faulty Accusations

As I spoke with an atheist one day who struggled to comprehend the possibility of the existence of God, he posed a few questions. He did not pose these questions in order to “stump” me, but out of a genuine curiosity and difficulty on wrapping his head around the idea of a divine being. As …