Déjà Vu…All Over Again

This article was first published about a year ago in the OBF Visitor, the publication of the Ohio Bible Fellowship. It was subsequently posted at Sharper Iron and (for better or for worse) is among the most viewed and discussed articles they have published. I thought I'd repost it here (a) for those who [...]

What I’m Reading: Evaluating the Da Vinci Phenomenon

Dr. Kevin Bauder has done the church a service by addressing The Da Vinci Code in a thorough, yet accessible manner. Although he is aware of others who have addressed the issue well, he has found that they tend to be either too heavy or too light to be of help to the typical reader. [...]

More Help: Architect & Engineers

My dad, Pastor Chuck Anderson, is designing TCBC's new building. That's been a great blessing to our church financially and practically, as he has a tremendous amount of experience designing and building churches over the last 3 decades..
We're now at the point where we need to have specialists work on the plans with him. [...]

Help: TCBC Looking for a “Tabernacle”

After spending most of our Saturdays for the last 3 months handling chainsaws and chippers, the men of TCBC are almost finished clearing some 200 trees from the 10-acre site of our future building. Just a bit more clean-up and we'll be finished with this portion of the job, praise the Lord!
As about 10 [...]

Bookmark Scott Aniol’s New Site

Scott Aniol's new site, Religious Affections, is up and running.
Nice work, Scott! 

Sermon Summaries (5/28/06)

What did you preach or hear preached Sunday, friends?

John Owen on Cultivating Humility

"There are two things that are suited to humble the souls of men….A due consideration of God, and then of ourselves. Of God, in his greatness, glory, holiness, power, majesty and authority; of ourselves, in our mean, abject and sinful condition."
(Owen, quoted by C.J. Mahaney, Humility: True Greatness, p. 92)

Is It Gonna Burn? Am I?

I'm a fan of much of the music that comes out of THE WILDS Christian Camp. I believe that their ministry of music has been a boon to the church and to fundamentalism in particular. I'm grateful. I've especially enjoyed Proclaim His Name (now only $10, BTW), To the Praise of His [...]

What I’m Reading: Humility: True Greatness

We're preparing for a series on humility for our summer midweek services at TCBC (which we hold in a park pavilion–pray for our building!). We'll have a dozen different men from the congregation address a particular aspect of humility from an assigned text. Thus, Joe & I are doing some preparatory reading on [...]

Teaching Creation & Redemption…In That Order

God owns us by virtue of creation & by virtue of redemption. He made us and He bought us. You know those truths. However, it is important to remember that accepting the truth of creation must precede accepting–or even understanding–the truth of redemption.
In his book Real Worship, Warren Wiersbe writes the following:
"If [...]