I’m teaching through 9 Marks of a Healthy Church on Wednesday nights at Welchland. If you’ve read the book then you know what the first mark is. Here is how I taught it. Feel free to give any feedback, good or bad. 9 Marks of a Healthy Church Mark 1: Expository Preaching Q: What is [...]

I hate doing this. Blogging is one of the most enjoyable experiences of my normal day. However, these past few weeks have been incredibly intense, leaving me with little time to do anything. Currently my every non-Averitt daylight hour is spent at the house Christie and I are purchasing, preparing for moving. I’m also embarking [...]

Forgive the delay in posting. It’s been a busy 7 days. Some of you know this already but for those that don’t please allow me to explain my absence: this Saturday Christie and I bought our first house. It’s been a whirlwind couple of days around the sale – arranging financing, signing papers, etc. On [...]

It’s hard for me to put into words how badly disappointed I am today. Since the Titans came to Nashville we have been blessed by a team of high character players, a good deal of success, and front office skill that rivals the tops in the league. However, much of that has dissolved over the [...]

Who was Melchizedek? An historical character or “something” other? The name Melchizedek is one important to the New Testament. According to Hebrews 6 Jesus Christ, the great High Priest, serves in the line of this mysterious antediluvian figure. We must consider Melchizedek mysterious because of the paucity of information about him in the Biblical record [...]

I was privileged to speak at Welchland Baptist Church in Spencer,TN. Here is the meager fruits of my efforts to exegete Colossians 1:21-29 How Paul Understood Ministry Colossians 1:21-29 I. The Original State of Man (vs. 21) (A) Paul approached mankind as being basically evil – alienated from God – hostile to the things of [...]

Welcome boys and girls of all ages. It’s time for us to play a game I like to call Symbolic or Not? where the contestants compete to find the deeper meaning in otherwise plain texts of scripture. Step right up…the first one to buzz in gets to enlighten the church on some crucial truth we’ve [...]