In Isaiah 61, after it lists what Jesus is going to do (heal the sick, free the captives), it says “THEY shall rebuild the ancient ruins.” It didn’t say Jesus would do it… it said that we would do it. What are the ancient ruins?
If NBC covered…
Feb 27
… the NCAA tournament, they would only cover games from one seeded teams with highlights from other games interspersed. They wouldn’t cover the games live but instead would tape delay everything and interrupt game coverage to talk about some random player’s backstory. But we would get to see the NAIA games live online and on [...]
Hall of Screwups
Feb 25
You may know them as the Hall of Faith. Here’s a different way to think about the people mentioned in Hebrews 11.
Abel and Enoch – Nothing wrong that is recorded in Scripture
Noah – got drunk and passed out naked after the flood was over. Then cursed his own son (Canaan) for finding him naked [...]
Christianese Dictionary
Feb 18
Christians, especially of the Charismatic/Pentecostal bent, too often use terms that most people have no clue as to the meaning. Consider this post your Spiritual GPS to guide you through the wind imparted through the word for your spirit-filled life. 
This Tech Report review analyzes current CPUs from cheap to expensive to determine overall value. They also considered overall system value when doing the calculation, my like my own CPU electricity value analysis. I think they used more expensive components across-the-board than is quite realistic to consider (raising the value of performance), but they reached [...]
What is genius? In my breadth of study and research, all I’ve done is learn what other people do. I understand many things, perhaps better than most, but does that go so far as to make me a genius? I don’t feel like a genius in any way… I’m just a guy who is insatiably [...]
I’ve never owned a gun, and neither have my parents. The past few months I’ve been researching guns and will probably buy a .22 or 9mm pistol in the near future. This process has been very eye-opening.
Church Grading Criteria
Jan 30
Have you ever thought about why you like a church or why you don’t? When I was living on the road, I decided to grade every church I went to. I started out by giving letter grades and including comments and then went back and graded on a 0 to 10 scale for each criteria and averaged the results for a score. I attended 50 churches ranging from 5 people to 5000. Here was the criteria I used to grade them.
There is no doubt that we are to evangelize. But what does it mean to “make disciples,” and how does this compare to the modern conservative approach to evangelism where we hope to bring someone to the point where they are willing to pray “the sinner’s prayer?” An even better question is what does it mean to become a disciple?
