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Apologetics Workshop Handouts

25, Mar 2010

As promised, here are the handouts for the Apologetics Workshop. Know Why You Believe workshop 02202010 part 1 Know Why You Believe workshop 02202010 part 2

Apologetics Workshop Videos – Part 2/2

1, Mar 2010

Here is part two of the videos from the apologetics workshop. Part 7 – Don’t All Religions Lead To God? Part 8 – Panel Q & A

Apologetics Workshop Videos – Part 1/2

22, Feb 2010

Here is part 1 of the apologetics workshop from this past Saturday. If you find the videos to be skipping, turn off HD. Parts 7 (Don’t All Religions Lead to God?) and 8 (Panel Q & A) will be posted next Sunday. Session 1 – Introduction and approaches to apologetics Session 2 – Why Should [...]

Lenten Traditions

16, Feb 2010

Some ideas for worship over Lent… First of all, use Lent as an opportunity to explore different musical worship styles than you are accustomed to. Chant the Psalms, particularly Psalm 51. Explore Taize, which is Scriptural and beautiful. Unearth some classic Lenten hymns, and pick those hymns which speak best of the season (“Lord Who [...]

Recommended Reading: Art and the Bible

24, Jan 2010

Recently, Josh brought back a great book from an IV worship arts conference. It is two essays written by Francis A. Schaeffer, on the biblical principles on which arts and worship are based. If you want to borrow it to read it, ask him or myself. Or, check the Amazon link below. Excerpt: But David [...]

Photography for the Worship Arts

11, Dec 2009

Calling our photographers–amateur to professional! We would love to use your skills and gifts to bring glimpses of God’s glory through the visual elements used every week in the worship services. Currently, one way is to submit your photos to a Flickr group created just for this purpose. You can also find the link entitled [...]

Double Honor

20, Oct 2009

New American Commentary writes: The commendation Paul directed for the dutiful elder was “double honor.” The term “honor” does not refer merely to an honorarium, but the failure to give proper pay would imply a lack of honor. The idea of “double” may refer to the double portion the oldest in the family received (Deut [...]

Submission to God

11, Oct 2009

Bibliotheca sacra 140 no 558 Ap-Je 1983, p 117-133.  writes: The phrase “take up his cross” is a figure of speech derived from the Roman custom requiring a man convicted of rebellion against Rome’s sovereign rule to carry the cross-beam (patibulum) to his place of execution. Thus the proper starting point is the historical basis [...]

Highest Regard

5, Oct 2009

Ron Hutchcraft writes: It hurts to make something special for someone you love – and then to give it and have it go unnoticed and unappreciated. God knows that feeling. There’s not a day that goes by that He doesn’t give us special gifts from His hand. As James 1:17 says, “Every good and perfect [...]

Deliver and Rescue

28, Sep 2009

God is worthy of praise! For, He is a God who goes ahead of us in battle and brings future blessing. God is the One who will deliver us and rescue us. The intensity of the Psalmist leads him to declare that he will sing a new song to the Lord. NIDOTTE writes: Mention is [...]


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