when words are shallow when the cruelty of death is felt but words are shallow when people leave but the pain lingers when the time passes and life goes on but you wish the world would stand still when others can begin to smile but you still hurt when words are shallow but a person’s …
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.
Choosing to See
This past week two of our friends experienced what must be one of the most painful experience I can imaging–the death of a child. I learned about both deaths through social media. Though we were very good friends with one couple years ago, distance and time have separated us. The other couple is a friendly acquaintances …
Union with Christ
Union with Christ perhaps the most significant theological concept of the Christian life that is the least taught, understood and believed. Union with Christ is the linchpin of Paul’s teaching on sanctification. Below is a short but dense summary of union with Christ. I’ve added Scripture references to enable me to not only think deeply …
Spiritual Family Tree
I have traced our family tree back 10 or 11 generations in this country, including the first generation of Scotch-Irish immigrants who fought in the American Revolution. And the Kilgour Clan (original spelling) can be traced many generations back in Scotland before being transported to Ireland by King James I. But for me one of the interesting …
Old Testament Character Studies
I have the privilege of teaching through a study of Old Testament character to two different groups this summer. As I prepare, it has become clear that too often we change our hermeneutical methodology when doing a character study. So here is my short, but hopefully developing list of guidelines for studying Old Testament Characters: …
Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God
Free Audio Book for May from ChristianAudio.com Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God by J.I. Packer is the free audiobook of the month for May. God is sovereign, can Christians sit back and not bother to evangelize? Or does active evangelism imply that God is not really sovereign at all? What is an antinomy? This classic audiobook …
Oh, How I need You
Everyday, every moment, Oh, how I need you Lord! Psalm 105:4 Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually! (ESV) 1 Chronicles 22:19 Now set your mind and heart to seek the Lord your God. Arise and build the sanctuary of the Lord God, so that the ark of the covenant of the Lord and …