Et Cetera

Megaphones & Memorandums

“Trust Christ or Burn!” I can’t say I was surprised to see this message proudly displayed on the illuminated church sign on a back road in Kentucky. I find it disappointing, but certainly not surprising. It was rather ironic that another church sign only a quarter of a mile away read, “On fire for Jesus.”

My Manly Minivan

Sometimes I pretend I’m driving a Ford F350 just to make me feel less inferior on the interstate.  Driving our family minivan, which happens to be a KIA, chafes my culturally informed ideas about masculinity. After all, don’t real men drive pick-ups? But what if our culture is selling a selfish picture of manhood as

My Bible

It’s leather binding is torn along the fold exposing worn pages bearing the signs of age. It’s a King James Scofield Study Bible. My mom bought it for me when I left for Bible College shortly after my high school graduation. It’s one of the oldest Bibles I own. I own a lot of Bibles.

Worldview Studies Certificate

You don’t have to read a lot of research to recognize that a large percentage of students who were active in their high school youth groups drop out of church in college. Sketchbook Video- Boyce College from Southern Seminary on Vimeo. Boyce College’s new one year program is designed to equip university-bound high school graduates

Don’t Preach Jesus

Don’t preach Jesus as a means to moralism or materialism. If your preaching is not grounded in the gospel you will end up preaching Jesus as a means to either a moral life style, or to material gain. Both are less than the gospel demands or offers. Jesus did not come to clean up our