G.R.I.T. 07 — Reality Check Part 2
https://vimeo.com/179689599 We are going to continue our series through the story of Elijah today, but I want to start with three other Scriptures. This will help frame our thoughts for today. We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway...
G.R.I.T. 06 — Reality Check
https://vimeo.com/178843115 New York City’s Grand Central Station stands as an incredible achievement of architecture and art. If you were to stand inside the station, and look upward, you would see a barrel-vaulted ceiling 125 feet high and 275 feet long. The...
G.R.I.T. 05 — Reluctant Hero
https://vimeo.com/177954589 You might have heard me talk about how I was a reluctant pastor. I grew up in a little church. I took my first step of faith very young, and I received Jesus and became God’s child. And let me say that if you’re investigating Jesus...
G.R.I.T. 04 — Hope
https://vimeo.com/173688170 Creation Scientists can only estimate how many stars there are in the universe. They can’t be certain. The reason they can’t be certain of the number is because they can’t be certain of the size. The observable universe stretches...
G.R.I.T. 03 — G.R.I.T. is Contagious
https://vimeo.com/171338498 Nobody steps foot onto the campus of West Point as a student without earning it. Getting into West Point is one of the toughest challenges a young person will ever face. Out of 14,000 applicants, only 1,200 actually get in. Almost...
G.R.I.T. 02 – Steadiness
https://vimeo.com/170400203 Though he finished high school as a star athlete, when he accepted the scholarship to a Division 1 School, he showed up as the eighth-string quarterback. He wasn’t happy, but he went to work. Seven other QBs stood between him and his...
G.R.I.T. 01 — The School of G.R.I.T.
https://vimeo.com/169471470 This fallen world is a morally corrupt pain machine. For all the goodness in the world, there is a greater darkness. The world is not as it was meant to be. God created Adam and Eve, and set them in the Garden of Eden. He gave them...
Stunted: 11 Disturbing Trends in the Church and How to Reverse Them (#1 The Death of Expository Preaching)
This is a follow up to my post and podcast about the high-profile defections of Christian leaders. This content is the opening chapter of a proposed book called Stunted. I've been around long enough to be considered a veteran pastor, and in this book, I'm dissecting...
I Kissed Faith-Defectors Goodbye
The rash of recent high-profile defections from Christianity only shows the insanity of how we have elevated unprepared men and women to leadership in the church. Quit looking to fallible leaders and start looking to the Word of God. Leaders come and go, but the Word of God endures forever.
SUMMERTIME SCRIPTURE STORIES 11 — Scoffers, Hesitators and Believers Part 2
https://vimeo.com/353268313 This post continues the Summertime Bible Story series. It also is part two of the previous post, called Scoffers, Heistators, and Believers. Paul in Athens The time is a few years after Jesus’ life on earth. Jesus died, rose again,...