Cue up some tunes, and let us be off… Tuesday and I am home after a pleasant afternoon going to class - I enjoy New Testament Studies. We talked about the Gospel of Mark once again and the Baptism of Jesus. We’ve been here before in Gospel and Acts from last semester. After class Luigi a...

by Dan Phillips ...these are pretty amazing: Now, I think the first is clearly faked, and one or two others are iffy. But the rest? If they're fake, they're fooling me. Even if they're all fake, we know that athletes pour incredible focus and discipline into what they do. Their whole life is molded ...

A friend of mine just started a new position with a church.  The Sr. Pastor wanted him to read Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity by Eugene Peterson.  So, I lent him my copy.  He just gave it back, and I decided to re-read it.  It has been nearly a decade since I read this book....

Some people have goals for every five-minute segment of the day, while others balk at that approach to life and deliberately claim to have no goals at all.  While goal-setting can be taken to a manic extreme, it is healthy to have goals in the important areas of life in order to avoid aimlessness.Â...

Mark 1:12-15 At once the Spirit sent him out into the desert, and he was in the desert forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and angels attended him. The Calling of the First Disciples After John was put in prison, Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God...

MEMORANDUM To:                 The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod From:              Gerald B. Kieschnick, President Subject:          Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Document “Report and Recommendations on Ministry Policies” Date:      ...

I wasn’t going to write tonight but a lady left a comment and I updated my last post with more information so why not “Crank one out!” Today Luigi and I got together for a tag team bible read through of the books of Romans and James for a paper we are writing on a topic of “W...

by Frank Turk To Titus, my true child in a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior. This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you— if anyone is above reproach, the husband of...

Keeping with the theme of the week, it is Thursday February 19th. President Barack Obama has visited Canada and the comments about the visit have all been very positive for Canada and its people. I just watched the press conference on Parliament Hill and was very impressed with what I heard. Today I...

It is very appropriate and timely for Mark Driscoll and Gerry Breshears to release a book on church ministry.  Driscoll has become a bit of a model for young church planters through his Acts 29 network and various conference appearances.  Therefore, a consolidated ‘volume’ if you will ...