Category: Christianity

  • Biblical Church Leadership VI

    This is the final installment of the Biblical Leadership series. If you haven’t read the previous installments please start with the original: Biblical Church Leadership I Objections Considered The initial objection that I have heard from several people with whom I have shared these thoughts is the idea that Timothy and Titus were the pastors…

  • Through the Bible: Deuteronomy

    This is a continuing series of my reading through the Bible in 2008. I am reading according to a chronological schedule found here: Chronological Bible Schedule. This week I noticed a few things in Deuteronomy that I found interesting and since these posts are just as much for me as they are for anyone else…

  • Biblical Church Leadership V

    This article is a continutation of my study on Biblical church leadership, if you haven’t started from the beginning I suggest you start there: Biblical Church Leadership I

  • Biblical Church Leadership IV

    The beginning of this series is found here: Biblical Leadership. Please start there if you haven’t read the previous posts in this series. This post will look into the role of the Deacons.

  • Biblical Church Leadership III

    Continuing my posts on Biblical Church Leadership let me again warn the new reader that this is a continuation and it is recommended that you begin with the original post to fully understand the content. WARNING: Up to this point most people will probably have been in agreement with the major thrust of this series,…

  • Biblical Church Leadership II

    This is a continuation of a previous post, if you haven’t read Biblical Church Leadership I suggest you first read it to make sure completely understand the context of this post. Today we will examine the elder.

  • Biblical Church Leadership

    I have recently started down a road of examining ecclesiology, or how the church is structured. Although I was taught a little about it in Bible College I have been challenged on the Biblical veracity of some of those teaching and so I began to study the concept. I understand that we all come into…

  • The Parable of the Soils

    I just read a section of a new book, “Organic Church” by Neil Cole, which book has me doing some introspection. He had a very interesting section on the Parable of the Sower, or as some call it “The Parable of the Soils”. I like this second name better as the parable seems to say…

  • Ash Wednesday

    I completely didn’t realize this is ash Wednesday!!!  How could I have not realized that, I guess I am not paying attention.  I don’t have anything deep to say about it just that I forgot.

  • Pride again rears its head.

    Pride The other day, in the middle of a somewhat heated debate via email, I realized another aspect where my pride hiders my ability to follow Christ and for that matter to be a good friend. I was so tied up in the idea of being right and clever that I refused to even consider…