The Divine Crash

Today, I was packing my boxes for my upcoming move and I found a journal I kept before I started seminary.  I was never good at keeping journals and have even gone months between entries (I am amazed at how well I have done with this blog).  As a result I sat down to [...]

So yesterday’s sermon was interesting.  I had planned it week in advance and that sermon would have been great.  But then I woke up on Friday and decided to change my sermon.  Hopefully God prompted that change and I listened.  As a result there is no manuscript but you can hear the audio here or [...]

The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come over you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore, the one who is to be born will be holy. He will be called God’s Son. Look, even in her old age, your relative Elizabeth has conceived a son. This woman who was labeled [...]

If you are a regular visitor of my site then you may have noticed that I changed my theme.  I was using a great theme called “Simple Pastor” and I liked it but I felt like I should change it a little.  Sometimes life is like that, we just need a little change.

So lately I have been thinking through this idea of what qualifies someone to be a pastor.  Is it good preaching?  Right morals?  The ability to delegate?  A desire to only work on Sundays (and 24/7 every other day).
As if the struggle to embody my calling is not enough an older man knocks on the [...]

The first in a new series on Jonah.

I am studying Hebrew in seminary.  This week we have translated Genesis 22:1-15.  This is the passage about the binding of Isaac.  While doing this we are looking at copies of the oldest Hebrew Manuscripts in existence.  We noticed that in the oldest manuscripts God calls to Abraham twice, but in the newer copies only calls [...]