The past couple of weeks I’ve been reading a book by Mike Erre called Death by Church.  The book purposes a case for what the church should be, how it relates to the world and furthers the kingdom.  Erre makes a bold and truthful statement of the Christian’s concept of salvation.  I think this rings [...]

In the gospel of Luke, the most familiar account of the Christmas story—the one most commonly read in churches and homes—is firmly rooted in history.  The narrative begins, “In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken” (Luke 2:1).  Luke’s mention of Augustus isn’t incidental or minor.  It sets the [...]

I downloaded a preview chapter of a book by my favorite author, Mike Erre.  The book was just released and I have it ordered already.  It is called Death by Church.  While I am trying to grasp the full context of the book as I read more.  As you might have guessed the book deals [...]

“Do I know my friends, or just complicated stereotypes about them?” - wow this quote kicked me in the teeth. I’ve been following a website of a guy that basically scans pages out of his journals and posts them online. This came across yesterday. I’ve been thinking a lot about relationship stuff. [...]

“He (God) brings light where there was darkness, truth where there was deceit, freedom where there was slavery, and forgiveness where there was shame and guilt. To live honestly, we must fight through our justifications, minimizations, and rationalizing and admit we are wrong. This is a big deal. Too much of church [...]

This past Tuesday Danny, Cassie, Matt, Jenn and I meet again to continue our discussion and review what we listened to in the theology track “Words of God or Words of Men: A theology of the Bible track“. Last week we listened to the first hour of a two hour part session. The [...]

I’ve been following a church on the west coast for some time now. Back in October I believe it was they started a theology track that was gonna run about 9 months. About a month or so ago they posted some of the first months on there website. I shared the audio [...]