Let me give you a disclaimer right up front. I’m going to pretty viciously attack the Book of Mormon and the ideas that it expresses. I think this is absolutely acceptable and necessary because the Book of Mormon is claiming to say things about God that I think are horribly wrong and will lead people wrongly. The Book of Mormon should never be believed or taught as saying anything authoritative about who God is. BUT!!!!! I want to do everything I can to never belittle a perso

I've been the Worship Pastor and the primary worship leader at Greenridge Baptist Church for over 10 years. In that time, I've prayed through and thought through the theological foundation for what I think our Worship Ministry should be built on. That includes our primary guiding verse (John 3:30), and our primary conceptual framework (we minimize distractions through practice and prayer in order to make much of Jesus). That theological foundation also includes how I approach

The goal of a Christian parent is to deposit the raw materials of Christianity into their children’s hearts and minds, and then to pray that God forges those raw materials into a life-long faith.

(This is the third part in a series on the idea that Hell is not separation from God. Check out the other two HERE and HERE ) If we’re going to reject the idea that Hell should be thought of as separation from God, then we’re going to have to deal with something really significant that Jesus says in Matthew 27. While Jesus is suffering for our sins on the cross Matthew writes this, Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. And about