Learn about Jesus through the Testimony of Others in the Bible Who is Jesus? C. S. Lewis attempted to answer this question when he popularized a trilemma (a dilemma with 50 percent more content) about Jesus. He argued that Jesus is either a liar...
Nothing Out of the Ordinary (Visiting Church #11) I didn’t know this church existed until my wife stumbled onto this charismatic church during her online research for our adventure. Their Facebook page says they’re “a charismatic, faith-filled...
Is Jesus Waiting for You? The Son of Man Stands to Welcome Stephen Into Heaven In the seventh chapter in the book of Acts, Stephen delivers a powerful speech to the Jewish religious leaders, called the Sanhedrin. His sermon smartly recaps the...
Can We Make Up Our Own Religion? King Solomon Mixed Different Religious Practices and God Was Not Pleased In the Old Testament of the Bible, God tells his people to not marry those from other nations, folks who believe differently and worship...
Technology Isn’t Needed to Have a Good Service (Visiting Church #10) It’s Father’s Day and we visit our fourth Baptist church in ten weeks. Like two of the others, this one is both a small congregation and an older congregation. They’re friendly...
Are You a Good Samaritan? Helping Our Neighbors Should Be More Important Than Following Religious Rules A man comes up to Jesus. The guy’s an expert in Jewish law. Today we might call him a theologian. He asks Jesus a question, “What should I do...
What I’m Learning by Praying for People We Honor God and Obey the Bible When We Share Our Prayer Requests with Others Prayer is an important part of my life. It’s part of my daily practice and essential for my work and relationships. I daily pray...
Methodists Know How to Cook (Visiting Church #9) This Sunday we visit a United Methodist church with two traditional services. We go to the second and I’m expectant for what I will learn. Two greeters hand out nametags to the regulars; they offer...
The Sabbath Day Sunday should not be a day of restriction but a day of freedom and celebration In the book of Exodus, God and Moses have a face-to-face meeting. That is significant. How cool would it be to have a direct conversation with the...
We Must Listen to the Holy Spirit and Obey Him God Gives Us Holy Spirit Inspiration to Guide Us for Our Benefit and His Glory For the last week, I had planned to write the introduction to my next book. I had the whole thing outlined, and I knew...
