…trying to become more like Jesus.
According to one personality test,
I am an ENTHUSIAST
(The Busy, Fun-Loving Type: Spontaneous, Versatile, Acquisitive, and Scattered)
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This last Sunday, a lady in my church gave me a blue card with some questions on it regarding tithing. Since my email to her was rather long-winded, I thought I would share some of those thoughts here.
Deuteronomy 26:2-15 Verse 2 says to take “some” of the firstfruits. [...]
This week at my Life Group, we looked at the clearest teaching in the Bible regarding the rapture, and I’ve become even more convicted about one particular position. This post is intended to guide you through the same study we considered this week and to give an inside track on what I’m currently thinking about [...]
As I have spoken with people about the Bible, I find more and more that people aren’t really familiar with the “plot” or the overall story of the Bible. Therefore, I’m going to try to go through the entire story of the Bible in a very brief overview fashion. The challenge is that I don’t [...]
I believe in God because the universe needs a creator.
The first reason I have for my own belief in God is that the universe needs a creator.
WARNING: I have a degree in philosophy and some of the concepts I use for my belief in God require the use of some technical terms. Here’s a quick [...]
In the church I pastor, ReCOMMITMENT is something we do once a year in terms of church services, but it certainly shouldn’t be so in terms of our spiritual lives. The Bible is clear that the spiritual life is not one that can be lived on the basis of one commitment made many years in [...]
I was disturbed to see this video from Barack Obama talking about his intentions regarding the abortion issue…
I learned about this video from http://theologica.blogspot.com/2008/08/obama-and-freedom-of-choice-act.html. Be sure to visit that blog and check out the information there on the Freedom of Choice Act. Morally disturbing.
What’s the real issue?
Apparently, we are facing the [...]
It seems so capricious and uncaring that a God would allow his own son to suffer, until you get the bigger picture that God loved the sinful world so much that he sacrificed one son, for three days, to gain billions of children for a sinless eternity.
We look at all pain and suffering from the [...]
When two people are in conflict with each other, bringing about resolution can be difficult. However, when two Christians are in conflict, the process of reconciliation should not be as hard as it is.
In conflict situations, I like to ask a few questions:
Describe all the sin in this conflict. Who has committed sin and what [...]
I read this article recently where the author is talking about how to make users of your product or service happy. The basic premise of the article is that you should make the right things easy and the wrong things hard.
A great illustration of this is a three pronged electrical plug. There is only one way that the plug can go [...]
Here are 24 key theological questions that I plan to answer here as I get the time. I should probably just make a commitment to do one answer per day… We’ll have to see! Follow my progress by clicking on the category link -> 24 Theological Questions
What is Scripture’s major theme and purpose? How [...]
This is crazy. My mom purchased a bedroom set for me as a wedding gift, and paid them over 50% upfront and when we came in to pay the remaining balance and schedule a delivery date, they told us that it had been discontinued and that they had a big sale and sold the floor sample to someone as well.
This was the only one I had wanted and I had my heart set on this exact set. Now, the refuse to refund our money and on top of that will only allow us to pick out something else within the store if we first, PAY THE ENTIRE AMOUNT OF THE ORIGINAL INVOICE FOR ITEMS THAT WE WILL NEVER RECEIVE, AND SECONDLY, ONLY IF THE ITEMS WE CHOOSE ARE EXACTLY EQUAL OR GREATER IN COST OF THE ORIGINAL INVOICE!
Why should they not refund our money? Or at the least, allow us to apply the money we have already invested towards something else in the store? They actual expect us to honor our comittment and pay the entire invoice, even though the furniture we selected has been discontinued and is unavailable!!!
Plano, TX Store
“If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged to be married and sleeps with her, he must pay the bride-price, and she shall be his wife."
Thankfully none of the women I've seduced are virgins! ;)
You should of contacted your CC company and filed a fraud complaint against the merchant. This may be a typical "trick" they use to get more money out of people. No need to spend more money, you send a copy of the contract to the CC company and they investigate for free. If they feel you were wronged they credit it back and they just deduct it from the merchant.

Greetings, interesting article. There are a few people who would disagree with you, for starters take Johm MacArthur. He recently opened up his 40 year vault of messages free to the public. He has 100s of messages devoted to the 5 points of Calvinism, which he strongly supports. He also has many messages on a pre-trib rapture, which he also supports. Boice, Barnhouse, Lutzer, etc. are just a few of the well known preachers who are 5 point and pre-trib. S. Lewis Johnson, considered by some the greatest exposito of the 20th century, was also Calvinistic and believed in the rapture. So, there are a few men who have studied the scriptures far more than you and I who came to a different conclusion.