So is this what it looked like when the waters divided on the Red Sea? Is this how Moses did it? And maybe more to the point, exactly where did the children of Israel think they were going once they got to the other side? As we head towards Week Three of Delivered, those are Read the full article…
The other night I received a series of text messages from my 19 year old son Riley, a freshman at UNC-Chapel Hill. Riley: What verses dominate Calvinism? (Meaning, what verses best answer or refute Calvinism.) Dad: I Timothy 2:3-4 and 2 Peter 3:9 Riley: And how do you interpret Ephesians 1:4-5? Dad: Collective not individual. Read the full article…
In honor of this year’s Australian Open, I’m devoting this week’s Top Five list to tennis, the sport that will not let me go. And to books, the pastime that sometimes consumes me. Books about tennis have ranged from the avant garde — The Inner Game Of Tennis by Timothy Gallway comes to mind — Read the full article…
One of my friends who is quite open with me about his journey out of addiction and into recovery told me of a phrase the recovery community uses: The Spiritual By-Pass What is that? It’s the desire on the part of many addicts to receive ONE prayer, ONE pill, or ONE deliverance and voila! … Read the full article…
Since the Delivered series is all about the book of Exodus, we wanted to give the entire church family a way to experience Moses’ story to a greater extent than is possible on Sunday mornings. So: movie night. My first idea was the Charlton Heston classic, The Ten Commandments. Except it’s three hours long. Not Read the full article…
