Archive: August, 2012

Book Review: The Freedom of Self-forgetfulness

 The Freedom of Self-forgetfulness Tim Keller A very short book, really a pamphlet, essentially a sermon Keller argues against low and high esteem, rather gospel-humility is self-forgetfulness. Great quotes come from C.S. Lewis. Keller well contrasts older times where we thought high self-esteem was the problem with today where we think the opposite, but Keller [...]

Bodies in the After Life

Watch this sermon Message Outline Series Study Guide               Often what happens in this life does not make sense to us. You try to do what is right and bad things happen, which then makes you wonder, is it worth it to try to live for God? We see [...]

Book Review: The Road Trip that changed the world

 The Road Trip that changed the world Mark Sayers Fascinating and insightful culture critique pitting the archetype of the “road” against “home” and then shifting to the very different biblical “road” image. Helpful and engaging correlations of pop culture, biblical insights and historical correlations all through the prism of Jack Kerouac’s The Road. Compelling book [...]

All Live after Death

Watch this sermon Message Outline Series Study Guide               It is common to hear people say that they respect Jesus as a good moral teacher, even a prophet of God, but they don’t believe that he actually rose from the dead. They dismiss the resurrection as mythology, nonsense, impossible. [...]

Life After Death study – Week 2 Day 5

  These are my answers to the questions found in the study guide for the Life After Death series. Join me – share your answers in the comments so I can consider them as I develop the sermons over the next five weeks.   What essential truths were stated in the passage we studied this [...]

Life After Death study – Week 2 Day 3

  These are my answers to the questions found in the study guide for the Life After Death series. Join me – share your answers in the comments so I can consider them as I develop the sermons over the next five weeks.   What rhetorical questions does Paul open this section with? He asks [...]

Book Review: The Captured

 The Captured, A True Story of Abduction on the Texas Frontier Scott Zesch Amazing story of white children captured by Indians who then are acculturated rapidly into Apache or Comanche culture and then have serious trouble re-entering a white culture even after 9-18 months. Freedom may be an issue, violence, power of the way of [...]

Life After Death study – Week 2 Day 2

  These are my answers to the questions found in the study guide for the Life After Death series. Join me – share your answers in the comments so I can consider them as I develop the sermons over the next five weeks.   According to verse 12, what were some of the Corinthians saying? [...]

Jesus’ Life after Death

Watch this sermon Message Outline Series Study Guide               Over the summer, my wife Tamara and I did something on our vacation that might seem weird to you. We visited a few cemeteries. From the brief inscriptions on the tombstones, there is something compelling about the stories that we [...]

Life After Death study – Week 1 Day 3

  These are my answers to the questions found in the study guide for the Life After Death series. Join me – share your answers in the comments so I can consider them as I develop the sermons over the next five weeks.   How does Paul describe himself? He is the least of the [...]

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