Feb 3, 2014 | Christian Living, Romans, The Bible
You can’t really separate the love of God from the practice of love for other people. I’ll look at some of what the scriptures teach about love in this video, which was recorded at Kingsland Baptist Church on January 19, 2014. I’d love to hear your...
Nov 21, 2013 | Christian Living, Family, The Bible
In my next few blogs, I’m going to tell you everything I know about raising children. Sue and I used to joke that when we had no children, we had seven theories on how to raise children. Then we had seven children, and now we have no theories. There’s some truth to...
Oct 30, 2013 | Romans, Theology
The book of Romans is not simply a gospel tract. It was not written merely to answer the question, “What must I do to be saved?” The book certainly explains how to be saved, but it deals more directly with the larger question, “How has God brought to fulfillment his...
Oct 21, 2013 | Christian Living, The Bible, Theology
God is at work in the world through his people, and he wants to transform all of creation. We are part of his plan of restoration, but sometimes we lose sight of that fact. It seems that the church in Ephesus also lost sight of that fact. The book of Revelation tells...
Jul 3, 2013 | Christian Living, The Bible
In scripture, the love of God is understood primarily in two ways. Neither of them has much to do with what we commonly think of as emotionally based love. He is a God of relationship and covenants. First, scriptural love is associated with the idea of covenant...
