Living by the Book Lesson One Why Don’t People Study the Bible? I. Statistics In a typical week only 10 percent of Americans read the Bible every day. That figure may be elevated because respondents who claimed to read the Bible daily had not done so in the week prior to the survey. (Barna, 1991) [...]

I’m just now getting to the July 13th, 2007 broadcast of The Albert Mohler Program where Russell Moore “interviews” Tony Jones of Emergent Village fame. I put “interview” in quotation marks because, as is par for the course with Jones, he consistently demonstrates an inability to address directly even the most specific questions. Really, I’m [...]

I’m finally getting around to reading How Now Shall We Live? by Charles Colson and Nancy Pearcey. The book is divided up into sections corresponding to worldview categories (i.e. Creation, Fall, Redemption, and Restoration) and in the “Fall” section the authors make the case that healthy human society is predicated on a well orbed understanding [...]

Did you know movies are “more effective” in evangelism than the church? I sure didn’t – at least not until I read ahead in my church’s Sunday School Literature that is. This wonderful revelation came courtesy of curriculum purchased from our dear Lifeway Christian Resources. (If you are wondering, this is the specific Lifeway product [...]

My time preaching through John has been an enjoyable experience and one that God has used to produce fruit in the life of my church as well as myself. Having said that, preparing to preach 7:53-8:11 has been a labor like none I can remember in my brief experience as an expositor. I was torn [...]