For the last 5 months I have been studying and teaching 1 Corinthians, Paul’s letter to a dysfunctional, divided, immature, selfish and immoral group of churches. One general recurring question that continues to resurface as I study is, “what creates unity?” or “how do we maintain fellowship?” If a church started by Paul in a …
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.
Helping others who are grieving
This morning at Calvary, as a conclusion to our Honest to God series, Pastor Beau Eckert engaged the conversation about how to walk through grief with others. My Dad was one of the individuals in the panel, and they recorded the panel on the fifth month anniversary of my Mother’s death. While my sister and I …
Own your own weakness
Quote by Johnny Miller, former Senior Pastor of Calvary Church Lancaster. Own your own weakness. My interpretation If you don’t know your own weakness, you really don’t understand your strengths. If you don’t know your own weakness, you can’t really appreciate the abundance of grace supplied daily by the Lord. If you don’t know your …
He is Risen! He is Returning!
Do I live like Christ died yesterday, arose this morning and is coming back tomorrow? Do I feel the pain of His death on my behalf? Do I rejoice at the reality of His resurrection vindicating His sacrifice, assuring me of life? Do I anticipate seeing Him face to face with uncontainable excitement? Do I …
Seven Stanzas at Easter
Seven Stanzas at Easter By John Updike Make no mistake: if he rose at all It was as His body; If the cell’s dissolution did not reverse, the molecule reknit, The amino acids rekindle, The Church will fall. It was not as the flowers, Each soft spring recurrent; It was not as His Spirit in …
He is risen indeed!
I’m a believer. I believe that Christ rose physically from the dead on Resurrection Sunday—Easter Sunday. I cannot imagine better news. And so, with my fellow Christians around the world, I join in declaring, “Christ is risen!, He is risen indeed!”
What to say and what not to say to those grieving
For a number of years I struggled to know what to say at funerals, particularly in receiving lines. I actually wrote a poem entitled, when words are shallow, because of that struggle. As we have gone through the passing of my mother it has been interesting to experience and observe how uncomfortable we as believers …