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How Do We Know What We Know?
Faith is trust in an authority: for empiricism, the authority is our senses. For rationalism, the authority is our postulates—the logical concepts that get the rational ball rolling. For Christianity, the authority is Jesus and his Word.
REGATHER & RESTART – EZRA 03 – How To Have a Comeback, Part 2
https://vimeo.com/363197607 Our society is fragmented. As a people, we are fractured and broken apart. I know there are exceptions, but would you basically agree that our culture is fragmented? There’s a report out about something that is happening in...
REGATHER & RESTART – EZRA 02 — How to Make a Comeback
https://vimeo.com/361697407 The title of this series of posts is Regather and Restart. The subtitle is a Journey Through the Book of Ezra. This is an expository study of the Bible. This means we are going verse by verse through a book of the Bible, or sometimes...
How the Church Murdered Grace
The heart of Scripture is Christ. The heart of Christ is grace. The heart of Grace is the Cross.
Without Christ’s Cross, there is no grace, not in reality, and not conceptually either. There is no such thing as a Christless grace, yet this is certainly abroad in the land. But even worse, there is no such thing as a Crossless grace, and this is pandemic.
REGATHER & RESTART – A Journey Through the Book of Ezra 01 – The Three Realms
https://vimeo.com/360163694 This new series answers some painful questions, some confusing questions, and some difficult questions about life and God. We are going to work our way through a book of the Bible verse by verse. This is called expository study, or...
Summertime Scripture Stories 14 — The Story of the Story of the Bible
https://vimeo.com/358832408 This post is wrapping up the sermon series called Simply Said Soulful, Satisfying Scripture Stories. My last post for this series is: The Story of the Story of the Bible Look, every day you're confronted with choices, You have to...
Four Christian Answers to Humanism
Let me start by saying please do not confuse humanism with humanitarianism. Humanitarianism means caring for people, and as Christians, we are fans of that. Humanism is something different. It is, ultimately, a worldview painfully out of sync with reality. What is...
G.R.I.T. 10 — Future Grace
https://vimeo.com/183242176 This quality called GRIT wears a thousand faces. It’s the toughness of a fighter in the UFC. It’s the warmth of a parent feeding a newborn in the cold, dark night. The rapture of an accomplished musician. The satisfaction of a hard...
G.R.I.T. 09 — Transcendent Purpose
https://vimeo.com/182336134 September 11 The TV in the living room showed live footage of smoke rising from a New York Skyscraper. Those pictures are etched in my mind. At the time, I didn’t realize how profound that moment was. Nobody realized how it would...
G.R.I.T. 08 — GRIT Reset
https://vimeo.com/180529192 The last time the Chicago Cubs won the World Series, the Ottoman Empire was still in existence. The Wright Brothers were still flying airplanes. The President of the United States was named William Howard Taft. The number of states...
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God Stuff Podcasts
- Suffering and Faith with Michele Cushatt November 13, 2019
- About Baptism (#038) October 25, 2019
- Evangelism in our Churches (#036) October 17, 2019
- Praying the Lord’s Prayer (#035) October 9, 2019
- How Do We Know What We Know? October 1, 2019
- How the Church Murdered Grace September 24, 2019
- Four Christian Answers to Humanism September 4, 2019
- The Grace Pathway — A Spiritual Growth Plan August 23, 2019
- Stunted: 11 Disturbing Trends in the Church and How to Reverse Them (#1 The Death of Expository Preaching) August 16, 2019
- I Kissed Faith-Defectors Goodbye August 15, 2019