Some Background For the past few weeks, my Sunday messages have been covering the end times. Specifically, for two weeks, we have looked at what Jesus himself said about his return. The most interesting part of all of this for me is how Jesus' words seem to directly speak against what is called in …
Questions from an Atheist: Questions 6, 7 & 8
A couple weeks ago, I posted to facebook a link to a page on our church website introducing my then new series of messages. It's a series where I promised to tackle some of the biggest questions of life and faith. However, an atheist friend of a lady in our church saw the post and posted a number of …
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Questions from an Atheist: Question 5
Last week, I posted to facebook a link to a page on our church website introducing my new series of messages. It's a series where I promise to tackle some of the biggest questions of life and faith. However, an atheist friend of a lady in our church saw the post and posted a number of questions of …
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Questions from an Atheist: Questions 3 & 4
Last week, I posted to facebook a link to a page on our church website introducing my new series of messages. It's a series where I promise to tackle some of the biggest questions of life and faith. However, an atheist friend of a lady in our church saw the post and posted a number of questions of …
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Questions from an Atheist: Question 2
Last week, I posted to facebook a link to a page on our church website introducing my new series of messages. It's a series where I promise to tackle some of the biggest questions of life and faith. However, an atheist friend of a lady in our church saw the post and posted a number of questions of …
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Questions from an Atheist: Question 1
Last week, I posted to facebook a link to a page on our church website introducing my new series of messages. It's a series where I promise to tackle some of the biggest questions of life and faith. However, an atheist friend of a lady in our church saw the post and posted a number of questions of …
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Questions from an Atheist
Recently, an atheist friend of a lady in our church saw that I was doing a Question and Answer session in our church and posted a number of questions of her own. I thought I would take some time to write one or more blog posts about the questions she posed. There are three reasons for addressing …
Practical Questions on Tithing – Part 3
This post is in a series called Practical Questions on Tithing. To see all my articles on tithing, click the link: Articles on Tithing. Today's article is written mostly for the person who has decided that they want to make tithing a part of their financial life and need some help thinking through …
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Practical Questions on Tithing – Part 2
This post is in a series called Practical Questions on Tithing. To see all my articles on tithing, click the link: Articles on Tithing. In Practical Questions on Tithing - Part 1, I addressed the major objection to tithing and the one major question: Should Christians tithe? Today, I want to …
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Practical Questions on Tithing – Part 1
This post is in a series called Practical Questions on Tithing. To see all my articles on tithing, click the link: Articles on Tithing. Tithing is a contentious topic... Last Sunday, I taught a message from Deuteronomy 26 which speaks about a gift of firstfruits that the early Israelites were to …
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Question: Where in the Bible does it say James and Jude were martyred?
Where in the Bible does it say that James and Jude were killed for their faith? The person who asked this question on Sunday said that they have done a search through the Bible to find no evidence of the martyrdom of James and Jude even though I said on Sunday that their martyrdom is strong evidence …
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Question: If we call someone a fool, do we lose our salvation?
If we call someone a fool, do we lose our salvation? This question is motivated by the following passage in Matthew: But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the court. And …
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Question: Why would God sacrifice his Son to save me?
Why is my life so important that God would give the life of his only Son to save me? Do you want the nice answer or the snarky but kinda true one? Begin Snarky Answer Why would God sacrifice his Son to save you? Actually, he didn't. Let me explain. There is an inaccurate and only partially dangerous …
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Question: Why doesn’t Jesus show himself physically to people anymore?
Why doesn't Jesus show himself physically to people anymore? This is one of those questions that I asked all the time when I was a kid. I always wondered why it was that I had to grow up in a world where the physical evidence of God was so limited. I heard stories of other people who would "hear" …
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Questions: The Shroud of Turin
"Turin shroud positive and negative displaying original color information 708 x 465 pixels 94 KB" by Dianelos Georgoudis - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. The Shroud of Turin is a mysterious piece of fabric that depicts the image of someone who looks remarkably like …
Why Membership?
Recently, I have been having some conversations with some people about the issue of church membership. Specifically, the questions have been revolving around what membership really is and why it's important. For a full assessment of our church's position on membership, you should check out our …