The Obedience of Obeying without Understanding January 3, 2013 | Leave a comment This Sunday will be the Epiphany, it occurs 12 days after Christmas each year. This year it falls on a Sunday. Were Jesus actually born on December 25th (scholars believe the actual date of His birth would most likely have been in the middle of April of 6 BC) he would be nine days old… Read More
Independent and Ruined July 2, 2012 | Leave a comment I have seen the American flag in some awesome places. Surrounding the Washington monument, flapping in the breeze, on the back of a fire engine following 9/11. I have seen it draped across the coffin of members of my family. I am a patriotic American who has participated in and partaken of the American spirit… Read More
Being A Godly Father Part 2 June 18, 2012 Another way in which Satan attacks men and their families is to make it as difficult as possible for us to accomplish our God given role as spiritual leader. Too few men take the responsibility of being the spiritual leader in their home seriously. One pictures a typical Christian family preparing for bed with Mom… Read More
Being a Godly Father June 17, 2012 Happy Father’s Day! As a Christian man (by Christian I mean one who loves Christ and gives Him first place in their life) the best thing which you can do for your children is to love their mother. (This is the subject of the devotions “Being a Godly Man” Part 1 and 2). Many books… Read More
A Neo-orthodox Theology Applied: An Analysis of the Hermeneutics of Christian A. Schwarz’s Natural Church Development May 28, 2012 Christian Schwarz is the head of the institute for Natural Church Development (NCD) in Germany.1 Schwarz, and an increasing numbers of denominational leaders, church growth practitioners and ministers, believe that he has devised a system that measures the relative health of churches. He claims this system grew out of a research study of one thousand… Read More