Ouch! Two Tuesdays ago, God decided to slap me upside the head - hard! - and I’m still smarting over it.
I was minding my business, sitting in my cube reading documents on the second day of the new job, fighting to stay awake while my mind was doing it’s usual over-thinking and [...]

I gave a quiz to my Bible study group this past week. The purpose of that quiz was to challenge things that are often heard in the church and are considered Biblically based, but are in fact not in the Bible. I also wanted to use this to expand our knowledge on facts [...]

One of my new favorite blogs is
Stuff Christians Like. (Thanks to
Dan for the introduction to the site) Funny stuff, such as “
Indiana Jones of the Bible?” that I previously posted or this one from SCL a few weeks ago:

Stuff Christians Like: #258. Taking a date to church. (6 fun tips.)
I’ve, [...]

From Stuff Christians Like - How well do you know Indiana Jones and the Bible?

1. When the ark was opened up, everyone’s face melted.
A. The Bible
B. Indiana Jones [...]

A couple weeks ago, in my Sunday morning Bible fellowship, we had an interesting discussion on the first miracle performed by Jesus, the Wedding at Cana when He turned water into wine. Read about it in
John 2:1-11 (ESV).
During the course of the discussion, the question was asked “When and where was the water [...]

“God helps those that help themselves.”
I heard that a lot growing up - in church, in school, from friends, from teachers, etc. While in college, I had a Sunday school teacher that taught about Biblical myths one Sunday. That lesson stuck has stuck with me over the years, and one of the myths [...]

It’s that time of year, the season of Thanksgiving, a time to reflect on what we have and give thanks for it. At Bible study last night, we talked about gratitude, especially in relation to obligation. Today, I received the following devotion on giving thanks from my Sunday School class. Seems like [...]

What version of the Bible do you typically read? I’m an NIV guy…at least I was. I’ve used the NIV for as long as I can remember, and I’ve never really thought about using another translation as my primary source. Currently, I have two Bibles that I use - a NIV study [...]

Several months ago I was introduced to the sermons of
Pastor Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle. His sermons are available on iTunes and
Mars Hill’s website and he has become one of my favorite preachers. He’s relevant and straight-forward, pulling no punches while still being Biblically focused - and he’s [...]

Here’s an excerpt from
Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell:
What if tomorrow someone digs up definitive proof that Jesus had a real, earthly, biological father named Larry, and archaeologists find Larry’s tomb and do DNA samples and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the virgin birth was really just a bit of mythologizing the [...]