Meetup and Church Planting Part 2 Thanks to my friend and mentor Joe Thorn for making a video of my talking about our experience using meetup.com (Coffee and Conversations; Ask a Pastor) in church planting as plant Cross of Christ Fellowship in downtown Naperville. You can read the post here. Here’s the video:
Category: Writings on Christianity
Meetup.com and Church Planting One of the many challenges with planting a church is connecting with unbelievers and sharing the gospel with them. How do we meet non-Christians and have natural and regular conversations with them about spiritual matters? One of things we’ve found success in lately as we plant Cross of Christ Fellowship in […]
Book Review: Taking God at His Word by Kevin DeYoung If you’re looking for a shorter book (138 pages) to help you understand a Christian perspective on the Bible, Kevin DeYoung’s “Taking God at His Word” is an excellent start. It’s very readable, orthodox, culturally relevant and helpful. I think such books are particularly important […]
Do All Religions Lead to God? There’s a popular view today which says this: all religions lead to God and basically teach the same thing; for Christianity to claim it is the only true religion is arrogant and intolerant. ELEPHANT ILLUSTRATION: Many give the following analogy to support this view: There was once a group […]
A Key Difference between Mormonism and Christianity “As man is, God once was; as God is, man may become.” Lorenzo Snow (5th LDS president) Are Mormons “Christians”? This claim is popular today, both in the media and from the mouths of some Latter Day Saints (LDS). Just this past week I had a conversation with […]
3 Ways the Grace of God Trains us to Live Differently (Titus 2:11-14) “For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory […]
What Happens After We Die? Part 2 (this post is a continuation of a previous post) Based on what God has revealed to us in Bible, here’s 7 points to help us understand what happens after we die: Our souls/spirits continue to live on: We don’t simply cease to exist. Our spirit/soul lives on. We […]
What Happens After We Die? (part 1) Before I answer the question–to which I believe God gives a true, accurate and accessible answer–it is important to first set up the biblical framework of death and life. The Bible teaches that God created us to be alive and live our lives enjoying and loving God in […]
The Faithfulness of God (Joshua 21:45) This past month I had the pleasure of preaching at Restoration Community Church in Naperville. I preached on Joshua 21:45: THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD. I have been particularly moved by this passaged this year–God is so faithful in keeping His gracious promises to His people (both in the OT […]
The Purpose of Life
What is the Purpose of Life? Some people say there is no purpose to life, it is just what we make of it. The problem with this is that it is really impossible for any of us to live this way. We all live as though there is really is a purpose to life […]