Did you hear me cuss on Sunday? I did. I said the word “disciple”. Now, in your theology that may not be a cuss word but is it in your lifestyle? Do you call yourself a disciple? Do you think of yourself as a disciple? Or has the word lost so much meaning to us [...]

The following is from notes on Paul Tripp’s message last night at the CDG Conference at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis. “There are five things that you must know about the children you minister to. These must always be the backdrop to the ministry you provide as an ambassador of Jesus Christ. 1. They were [...]

I have been concerned that the church here in the US and even most of the western world has constantly substituted something else for the gospel. I understand that Biblically this is nothing new (Gal. 1:6). We have seen the sugar coated methods of modern preaching that has minimized sin. We have seen the “benefits [...]

Your wife has begged you to get her out of the house. She is 8 months along in her fourth pregnancy and by her own description she is: “bigger than a barn”. It is 100 degrees outside. You are parking in front of the store she has mandated you to go to (she is pregnant [...]

What is cussing? Who made up the list of words that denote cussing? When does a word become cussing? Who knows the answer to this? If you think about it, by someone’s rules you may be cussing at them by saying: “dude”, “help” or “love”. Sounds extreme, right?

“She Almost Glued A Barbie To My Face”! That’s what my son told us last night at dinner. My wife and I asked the kids to tell us things (Confess) that they have not ever shared that have bothered them. We shared they could say what was on their heart and we challenged them not [...]

Are you baptizing your babies? Is that what you are doing? Before you say “no” hold on. “Baptizo” is the transliteration of the Greek word meaning “to baptize” or literally “to place into”. So, the question I want to ask is what are you “placing your babies into” or what are you “immersing” them in?

Happy Birthday Santa. Doesn’t that sound good for CHRISTmas? What do we do that revels it’s not Santa’s birthday but Christ’s? What do we do that clouds, distorts, underminds, or diminishes who’s birthday we celebrate? Didn’t the Israelites get in trouble for messing up celebrations and to whom they were to being devoted to?? Do [...]

Now we are to the third of the four evils Watson discusses that God uses for our good in this teaching from Romans 8:28. I must confess you are not going to like this one at all. It’s desertion. God is just in any “withdrawings” of the sense of His presence (what Watson means by [...]

I want to add some to my previous (pt. 2) entry on temptation. Listen to this and ponder the implications: “Temptation is a trial of our sincerity. It argues that our heart is chaste and loyal to Christ, when we can look temptation in the face, and turn our back upon it” (Watson, pg. 35). [...]