Ouch! A Synopsis of Christ’s Teaching on Money

I’m in the middle of a two-part series on The Christian and Money, and it’s killing me. Seriously, comparing my thoughts on money with Scripture’s is devastating, though necessary. All of us—rich or poor, old or young, male or female—struggle with greed. In fact, I think there is probably no part of life in which [...]

The Heartbeat of Tri-County Bible Church

Yesterday I preached a message entitled “The Heartbeat of Tri-County Bible Church.” It was (to quote the sub-title) “A Look at TCBC through the Lens of Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians.” It’s essentially our philosophy of ministry in one “drink-from-a-fire-hydrant” message. It addresses issues that are vitally important to us, including a doxological purpose, cross-centeredness, [...]

National Church Planting Conference Workshops Online

The mp3 files of the network sessions from ARCH Ministries’ 2008 National Church Planting Conference in Mentor, Ohio are now online. There were 5 sessions, all of which can be downloaded here (or at the links below). I’ve also made the handout from my session available as a pdf here. Perhaps someone will find it [...]

Impossible Christianity

The radical nature of regeneration and its effects has been much on my mind lately. My good friend Andy Henderson has been thinking along the same lines, and we recently had a great time of phone fellowship around the idea of “Impossible Christianity.” The gist is that the life that Scripture calls Christians to is [...]

Normal Christianity: Blurring the Lines and Raising the Bar

A young man in our ministry has been a particular delight to my soul during the last decade. Dave came to know Christ during the first few years of Tri-County Bible Church’s existence, when he was a senior in high school. He immediately began to grow like a weed (or, as Joe Tyrpak insists, “like [...]

New Messages and Series Available Online

A few new sermons have recently been uploaded at TCBC’s SermonAudio site:

Sunday night I preached the first of a series on the book of Hebrews. We’ll be covering one chapter of Hebrews in each of our monthly observances of the Lord’s Table during 2008 (and the first month of 2009)—a great idea of Joe Tyrpak’s. [...]

Christ, Christians and Paint Brushes

My preaching schedule at TCBC has brought be to the book of 1 John. What a tremendous book the Lord has given us in the Apostle John’s first epistle! It has quickly became a favorite of mine. I have especially benefited from comparing 1 John with John’s Gospel, and I would like to suggest the [...]