How does a city boy prepare to pastor a small church in rural Nevada? He doesn’t. Not really. Not in the ways that matter.   I came out of Los Angeles, trained at Grace Community Church—a congregation of ten thousand people where ministry ran on rails. If I needed something for a Bible study, children’s ministry, or Sunday School, it was available before I finished asking. I led home Bible studies, taught Sunday School, and led music for an Awana program with more than 250 ch

Introduction Ask any biblically informed Christian whether the Fourth Commandment (Ex. 20:8ff; Deut. 5:12ff) is binding on New Covenant...

Suggested reading: Psalm 1:1-6; Genesis 1:1-2:25; Matthew 1:1-25; Proverbs 1:1-2 Reading Genesis 1 and Matthew 1 on the same day was a...

There has been recent interest in the theological notion of the ordo amoris  in light of Vice President J.D. Vance’s recent use of the...

The book of Proverbs provides the Christian with much-needed wisdom. There are a variety of topics that Proverbs address. Each topic has...