Jesus Among Exorcists In my last post, I considered the notion of exorcism in the 1st century Jewish mind. In this post I’d like to consider the exorcistic ministry of…
Author: <span>Tom Schmidt</span>
To most today, talk of exorcism, demons, and spirits is the stuff of movies and antiquated religious notions. How can anyone actually believe in these things? The Bible presents a…
10 Key Issues to Cover In Your Church’s Prayer Meeting Does your church have regular gatherings outside of the Sunday service where members can meet together and pray? Our church…
11 Questions that Expose Idols Darrin Patrick has an excellent book for those entering vocational ministry called “Church Planter: The Man, The Message, The Mission.” The book cover three main…
Why So Few Men Enter The Ministry Continuing my series on William Perkins, I’d like to share why he believed so few young men enter into vocational ministry. He gives…
Perkins on Law and Gospel In a previous post I shared William Perkins’ summary of the task of preaching. Here I’d like to share a few quotes about application and…
One of the first books written in the English language on preaching is ‘The Art of Prophesying” by William Perkins (1606). This book, though written over 400 years ago, is…
In a previous post I described how my friend Dan and I challenged each other to write a new worship song (a song created for the purpose of use for…
Recently, I have begun sharing this video with non-Christians I meet in order to explain to them the gospel, or the gist of the Christian message. I think this video…
This weekend I will presenting a paper at the SBL Central States Regional Meeting. My paper is the use of irony in the book of Revelation, a topic that I…