Pray. Together. On Purpose.

One of the best practical changes Tri-County Bible Church has made during our short history is the adjustment of our Sunday morning schedule to facilitate corporate prayer. In my recent studies (and in my observation of Ugandan believers), I’ve been convicted that whole-church prayer meetings were more important in the early church than in the [...]

Take a Local “Missions Exposure Trip”

The following is a guest-post by Greg Buchanan, a student from Bob Jones University who did a ministerial internship with Tri-County Bible Church this summer. It describes a recent trip which Pastor Joe Tyrpak planned for several of our teens, including my oldest daughter. I love the idea and commend it to you. _____ How [...]

Christ, Creation Mandate, and New Creation

I’m not a “yard work” guy. At all. It’s all I can do to keep my lawn cut and my weeds (reasonably) at bay. Yard work gives me hives—literally—along with itchy, bloodshot eyes and a runny nose. The one redeeming quality of yard work, as I see it, is that it highlights our need of Christ. [...]

Borrowing Brains: Valley of Vision

I’m reading through The Valley of Vision very, very slowly. Every line is so packed with fuel for meditation that a few pages at a time is all I can take. It’s been a delight. I’d love to hear (a) your impressions of the book, and (b) a few of the lines the Lord has [...]

“The local church is the hope of the world.”

(HT: Steve Hafler)

Dan Phillips, World-Tilter

My friendship with Dan Phillips (of Biblical Christianity and Pyro fame) has developed over the years. We’ve met only once, but we’ve  corresponded electronically too many times to count. Great guy, great thinker, and great communicator. And now he owns a fun story about a guy who blogs because he likes to write and eventually [...]

Christ: The Lamb, Scapegoat, Turtle Dove, and Heifer

I love the Word. And the Word. And words. It’s no wonder, then, that I so enjoy reading Spurgeon when he waxes eloquent about our Savior—which is often. Today I marvel with him at Christ’s fulfilling such varied and “apparently contradictory” OT prophecies. I invite you to join us. “There is not a single jewel of [...]