What Christianity is Really All About (Part 4…

So far, I have stated that Christianity is about the Man, the Message, the Mission, and now finally it is about the Makeover. When we begin to understand that Christianity is about Christ, the Gospel, and the Reconciliation and Sanctification of people through Christ, everything changes. We are “being transformed into his image with ever-increasing [...]

What Christianity is Really All About (Part 3)

What is Christianity really all about? Thirdly, (after the Man and the Message) comes the Mission. First we have to understand how the first two elements build the foundation for the desire and the ability to live as someone who is striving to fulfill God’s mission. Without a knowledge of and a relationship with Christ [...]

How Awesome!!! “The Books of the Bible”

Check out this new exciting project from the International Bible Society!! It’s called “The Books of the Bible” and it features the entire text of the TNIV in a more theologically and chronologically sensitive order without chapter or verse numbers, footnotes, or multiple columns. Basically they want you to just read and pay attention to [...]

What Christianity is Really All About (Part 2)

What is Christianity really all about? Second of all, it is about the Message. Before Christianity can move anywhere in a person’s life they must come to know the Man, Jesus Christ the Son of the Living God. Secondly however, they must understand the Message. The Message is the Gospel, the “Good News.” The following [...]

What Christianity is Really All About (Part 1)

The classes I am teaching this week have gone really well. I wanted to share with you the foundations of what I have shared with the intention of developing all of this at a later time. What is Christianity really all about? First of all, it is about the Man. Before Christianity can move anywhere [...]

It’s Not About WHY You Became a Christian…

In a class I taught today I asked the question, “Why did you become a Christian?” The answers covered the spectrum. But the point I wanted to make was this: that is a far less important question than what we must ask ourselves everyday. Here’s the question: WHY DO YOU STILL WANT TO BE A [...]

Mobile Reflections…

I am amazed at what technology has done to the world. ABC News said on their show last night that they have redone their website so that people can contribute to and report the news. Even they understand that technology has changed things. No reporter was able to capture the hanging of Sadaam Hussein, but [...]

Attitude Check…

One of my favorite songs as a little kid was “Attitude Check” by AVB. It is definitely old school but I love the message (and the song) still to this day. Can I be honest? (Truth is, I’m going to be.) Sometimes I need an attitude check. Sometimes I wish I was in a better [...]

The Missional Manual Challenge…

Here is the challenge that was laid down to me by my brother: How is it that so many servants of God, all over the world can be missional if they’ve never heard the word “missional”? It must be because we read the same Holy Scriptures and have the same desire: to be the church [...]

Missional Living isn’t an Accident…

I write this with a couple of things being understood: (1) That I can be hard on some of the missional literature that I read and experience and (2) that I am not an expert or nearly as engrossed in “the conversation” as I would like to be. With that being said I would like [...]