Category: Writings on Christianity

Here’s my sermon and sermon outline for Psalm 103 To listen to it, you can click here. Ps 103 “Preaching the Gospel to Ourselves” What do you do when your heart grows cold toward God? What do you do when you don’t feel like worshiping God? How do you stir up your love for Him? […]

Meditations from Psalm 103 In Psalm 103 we see David celebrating God’s person and actions.  It interesting to think about how David recalls not only God’s character (v8-18), but also God’s actions (2b-7; 19).  Here’s some of my meditations after considering this: If we only possess an awareness of who God is apart from what […]

100 Person Prayer Team “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks […]

Preaching Like An Adolescent Boy Unlike a vast majority of Christians, I thoroughly enjoy standing up and preaching a sermon. I believe God has given me this desire and delight to serve Him in this way, and that not everyone has been given this passion. It is a privilege and an incredibly weighty responsibility to […]

Taking a break from the blog and church planting work for the next few weeks.  Will be back after Jan 6th. Looking forward to reading a biography on Calvin by Alistair McGrath!

How to Choose a Church Name: How We Chose “Cross of Christ Fellowship” The church we are planting next year in Naperville is called “Cross of Christ Fellowship.” How did we decide on this?  Well, it was a very difficult process, but we landed on Cross of Christ Fellowship for the following reasons. 1. Cross […]

GIVING THANKS IN ALL THINGS AND FOR ALL THINGS “give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” (1Th 5:18 ESV) “giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ” (Eph 5:20 ESV) Give thanks in all circumstances?  […]

My friend Dan Alcantara has an excellent post on dealing with the sin of pride and leading worship. Check it out: http://thedanalcantara.com/the-problem-with-pride/

The Church and Her Role in the World The Church is the “community of all true believers for all time” (Grudem).  It is the people of God, formed by God for the purposes of God for the glory of God. The origin of the church lies within the redemptive and creative purposes of God.  In […]

A Plea to Millennial Christians: Commit Yourselves to a Church Community (Reject Selfish Love of Autonomy) Over the years, I’ve seen a tension in myself and other millennial Christians (those born between 1981-200): we want to be known and part of a church community, but we also want freedom to leave and go elsewhere.  This […]