I’m betwixt in my daily commentary of 1Sam. In chpt 18 are the beginnings of at least three significant stories that will stretch many years into the future, one of which will even apply to us today and future generations at least until the Second Coming of Christ and perhaps...
In this essay I examine the uncomfortable truth that true faith is crazy reckless. https://freebornchurch.com/podcast/essay-reckless_faith.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Part 1 of the sermon series, “John: The Gospel of Our Cultural Narrative” https://freebornchurch.com/podcast/real.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
It is intriguing to me the complaint that Christian ministers voice commonly. There are several variations of it and it is expressed in several different ways, but essentially it goes something like: “Christians will pay to watch 3 hours of entertainment but are unwilling to sit through even one hour...
Thesis of Men’s Retreat 2021 “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery “Wherever we want to go, we go. That’s...
In this final sermon of the series, we consider that the ultimate point of the word of faith is that Jesus is Lord. That is the necessary conclusion of the fact of the resurrection and it is the occurrent instantiation of believing in our heart that God raised him from...
What is the meaning of Phil 4:13? “I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.” What exactly does “all things” include? Can I fly, make a million dollars, sing beautifully, or overcome cancer? Ok. If it obviously does not include these impossible things, then what impossible things does...
Our relatively recent explosion in technical and scientific progress has shaken the foundations of traditional society, especially that of the nuclear family. Women are more able to enter the workforce today than ever before in history. Activists like to think this is because they have beaten down patriarchal discrimination, but...
In this sermon we discuss the coherence between ‘dispositional belief’ and ‘occurrent belief’ that Paul is referring to when he explains that the word of faith is to both “believe in our heart” and “confess with our mouth”. A true, saving faith must crystalize the abstract, unarticulated belief that God...
