My Message to Marshill Church about the Worship Sermon.

On March 2nd Mark Driscoll preached the last sermon in his Ask Anything series.
After listening to the sermon and reading the blog post found here, I decided to send the church a message, via their Mission and Vision blog. I’ve posted the whole message below. If you’ve listen to or read the post on [...]

The Battery Life of Christian Cultural Influence Cont.

After about a month of not finishing this article I finally took some time to sit down and complete my thoughts on this issue.
The percentage of “churched” Americans has continued to rise over the last 100 years. Yet at the same time there is a sense that especially since the 1960’s there has been a [...]

Dec. 5, 2007
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Culture · Life · Tattoos · The Bible

New Tattoo

A few days before my birthday I got my new tat.
Its only half done, and it hurt a lot. Its taken a while for it to heal so I’ve been holding off on putting any pictures up.
Here it is:

Its from Revelation Chapter 21, where God is finally reconciled to his people in the new Jerusalem.
God [...]

Nov. 13, 2007
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Marshill · Tech · The Bible

Greek Text Online

Marshill’s publishing ministry theresurgence.com just announced their free online Greek tool. If you have bibleworks, or are privileged enough to have a mac with Accordance on it than this isn’t anything revolutionary, but if you don’t have the expensive bible software, this gives you an unheard of level of access to the original language.
I have [...]

Oct. 31, 2007
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Sad · The Bible

Church of Hate - Out $10.9 Mil

This cnn article is very interesting, here is a quote:
” Albert Snyder of York, Pennsylvania., sued the Westboro Baptist Church for unspecified damages after members demonstrated at the March 2006 funeral of his son, Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, who was killed in Iraq.
The jury first awarded $2.9 million in compensatory damages. It returned later in [...]

Sep. 26, 2007
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Culture · The Bible · Theology

A Very Brief Examination of Romans 13

This is a very short reflection that I wrote on Romans 13 in response to James Willson.
It is significant to remember that the first section of is preceded by the Paul’s encouragement to live at peace with all men, Roman 12:18. This seems to be tied to our interaction with the governing authorities.
It is this [...]

Sep. 22, 2007
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Blogging · Church · The Bible · Theology

A Reply to Dr. Hart

If you havent checked out De Regno Christi before, now is a good time to check it out. Its a group blog by guys in the Reformed and Presbyterian Circles, they have a good mix of differing oppions on most issues.
Darryl Hart is a regular, so is Peter Leithart, and they have recently ask Doug [...]