Author: Steve

I love to study the Bible and I love to engage with others in learning. I had been privileged to do this on a regular basis through church ministry and through part-time teaching at a local Bible colleges. Helping individuals learn to feed themselves through their own study of God’s Word is joy-giving to me. Influencing groups to do life and church from a biblically grounded, theologically faithful perspective is my passion.
Musings, Wisdom

If Error is Harmless then Truth is Useless

I saw this quotes as I was reading a review and extensive dialogue about the new Rob Bell book, Love Wins. I won’t comment on the book based on the reviews of others–I do hope to read it when it comes out.  Because of the popularity of Rob Bell and his considerable communication skills, his …

Musings

Teaching Descernment and Information Overload

I’ve been thinking about the lack of general discerning and wondering how we teach ourselves and other to be discerning. We have greater access to information and more information than we have ever had, but information and wisdom or information and decrement are not the same thing.  Too much information may actually be a detrimental to decision making and discernment. Newsweek The …

Bible Study, Church, Uncategorized

The Power and Place of the Word of God

The power and place of the Word of God. John Albert Bengel Scripture is the foundation of the Church: the Church is the guardian of Scripture. When the Church is in strong health, the light of the Scripture shines bright; when the Church is sick, Scripture is corroded by neglect; and thus it happens, that …