I really don’t know.  But I thought that question would cause you to click on this blog and read at least a few more sentences.  Hey it worked!

            Last week was an incredible week for those of us who live in central Virginia.  We experienced a rare hurricane, an even more violent thunder-storm and it was all preceded by a jaw dropping earthquake that measured a 5.9 on the Richter scale.  Now it isn’t that I have never experienced devastating storms before.  Hurricane Ivan from 2004 on the Gulf Coast is one Continue Reading…

Because of many questions on the topic of music I promised our congregation that I would make this issue available to interact with on my blog.  Maybe this is suicidal, maybe people are to fearful to respond,  but I will answer questions and comments as honestly and biblically as I can.  I hope to address several questions that were raised in last Sunday’s message.  The first has to do with the question of secular music and the Christian. 

            Is all secular music wrong? Not all music must be for worship nor must it be spiritual.  Some argue that if it does not mention God then it isn’t appropriate for the Christian.  If that is the case what should we do with the Continue Reading…

This past Sunday we recognized Easter Sunday Commercially, Socially, and in Communities and Churches.  Many participated in the annual Easter egg hunts, Bunny photo’s and traditional family trip to Church.  Now I have participated in all of these most Easter weekends, we skipped the Bunny photo this year, but none of these really addresses what Easter is about.  Easter Sunday is about the empty tomb, the tomb that Jesus was laid in.  Historically and biblically there is overwhelming evidence that the tomb was and is empty due to the resurrection of Jesus.  The Bible predicted His resurrection from the dead and Jesus spoke of it often and it was the first and Continue Reading…

   This past Friday night abc on their program 20/20 aired a documentary on the Independent Fundamental Baptist movement. The program focused in on some scandals within a few of the churches that took place over the past decade.  The “IFB” churches were not presented in a positive or favorable light whatsoever.  It was implied and bluntly concluded that these churches are part of a cult, are very legalistic, controlling, and constantly cover up abuses.  Wow, what accusations!  The hard part is that “Independent’s” have no formal representation to defend themselves or respond.  Being that the readership of this newly launched blog is somewhere between 0-2 people from Russia who accidentally landed on this blog, my response will not suffice.  But that will not stop me from responding! Continue Reading…

With the 400^th anniversary of the King James Bible being recognized this year we have spent some time on Sunday evenings this past winter discussing how we receivedour Bible and the differences in translations today.     This has been an excellent platform to discuss several issues that are often misrepresented.  It is my belief based on Scripture that God’s Truth is Eternal, but languages change. Unfortunately some have taught that to update a translation is to change God’s Word.  This is simply not true.  If translations are not updated they will soon lose precision in communicating the truth which is eternal.  Updates to translations are not always improvements but in some cases they truly are. Continue Reading…

Do you ever find yourself showing up at church and wondering “where is everyone at today?”  Church statistics tell us that on any given Sunday more than a third of the church is missing.  This obviously is not good for the health, fellowship, worship and mission of the church.  We know that life happens, sickness rears it’s ugly head up and we travel from time to time.  But 30% of us gone each week?  Many times we just find something else that “seems” to be more pressing or more important to do.  So why should we worship weekly and make worship a top priority?  Continue Reading…