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My Life of Regret and Hope

Some people think I have lost my faith. I think I am only now beginning to find it.

Parts of my story, my journey of faith, my walk with God (or whatever you want to call it) have been posted in various places online (on Jason Boyett’s blog, for example) and in a book I edited last year, but little of it has been posted here on this blog. Let me summarize some of the highlights.

My Life in a Few Paragraphs

I was raised in a pastor’s family. I had two loving parents, and nine siblings. I loved gr...

Loving the Homeless

One of the primary ways we can be the church in the community is by following the example of Jesus in showing love to the needy and homeless in our town. Here are some practical examples from Sam Riviera about how he loves the homeless in his city. Sam has written several posts on this blog about helping the homeless. Go check them all out!

Jesus said that we would always have the poor with us. Thinking about that, we find it easy to conclude that the problem of the poor is too big for us to s...

A Couple Blogs Worth Reading

Thank you for reading this blog and for interacting as you do in the comments. It is often through the comments that I find some of your blogs, and over the past week or two have found some blogs I want to mention. Go check them out!

First, Dr. James McGrath writes a great blog at Exploring our Matrix. His posts are always insightful and challenging. Occasionally, he even throws in some hilarious images. Like this one:

Second,Michael Kampff is offering a free eBookon how men can be better fathe...

The Bible Jesus (Didn’t) Read

Kregel sent me a copy of What the Old Testament Authors Really Cared About: A Survey of Jesus’ Bible,edited by Jason DeRouchie.

By the title, I expected a Christologically-centered survey of the Old Testament, which, frankly, would be a welcome addition to the typical Old Testament survey fare.

Most Old Testament surveys operate under the assumption that what follows later in the Bible (i.e., the New Testament), should not be read back into the Old Testament. So when scholars write about the Ol...

Pre-Black Friday Sale at StudioPress

I don’t often recommend products or services on this blog, but I recently learned of a sale that is going on which is too good to not recommend. It is the pre-Black Friday Sale at StudioPress for their Pro-Plus All Theme Package. It might seem a bit expensive at $299, but this is over $1000 off the full price of this package. Of course, you can most often get this package for $399, so this pre-black Friday sale is for an additional $100 of that already-low price.

When you purchase this pro pac...

What Heaven Will Be Like

Remember Susan Boyle? She went pretty far in the Britain’s Got Talent show back in 2009. But I recently was thinking about her and what heaven will be like, and realized there is something she teaches us about life, dreams, eternity, and heaven.

Watch this video before reading the rest of the post.

Here is an article for more informationabout Susan Boyle:

Susan Boyle’s story is a parable of our age. She is a singer of enormous talent, who cared for her widowed mother until she died two years ago...

Stop Using the Sinner’s Prayer

A man came into my study this week struggling with sin, salvation, and a sense of God’s presence in his life. He told me he was saved but he had never seen God work in his life.

While I could have pointed out that God is at work in the lives of all people to one degree or another (John 16:8-15), I first decided to run a spiritual diagnostic to determine his spiritual condition. I used versions of the Kennedy question. First, I asked him if he were to die today, did he know where he would go to...

A House Church Argument

I am not against “House churches.” I love house churches, and I love house church people.

ButI do get nervous when house church proponents (HCP) start to condemn all other forms of church. It sounds ominously familiar…

To see what I mean, listen in as I discuss house with with a house church proponent:

HCP:The Book of Acts describes house churches. So house churches are the only biblical way of doing church.

Me:But this is 2013. Things have changed. Don’t you think Jesus might want His church to...

Finding Jesus in Denver

This post is part of Sam Riviera’s series on being the church in our community. See the bottom of this post for more posts on how you can be the church to others by living like Jesus among them.

Recently I traveled to Denver to visit The Refuge, a beautiful eclectic faith community, co-pastored by our friend Kathy Escobar. I spent part of a couple of afternoons with Kathy while she showed Jesus’ love to people, and one evening at her home as part of the group that meets there on Wednesday even...

Favorite Part of Church

Saw this on Pinterest the other day… this kid draws a picture of his favorite part of church.

…and by the way, I am now on Pinterest… if you are too, Follow me! I will most likely follow you back…

Anyway, I sometimes think many adults might feel the same way about church, but are too… well, “adult” to say what they are actually thinking.