I have uploaded last Sunday’s Bible teaching: The Benefits of Community from Eccl 4:9-12. Listen, download, or subscribe is the Teaching Audio player in the right sidebar. Here are the main principles we discussed: 1. When we live in community, we produce more from our labor (v. 9). 2. When we live in community, we [...]

I just uploaded the final part in the teaching series from 1 Corinthians 16:5-18 on Doing the Work of the Lord. This section is from vv. 15-18 and establishes the principles that as we all engage in the Lord’s work, we are to submit to others who are doing the Lord’s work. This message provides [...]

Emma Curtis, one of the students in our local home school association (High Country Christian Home Schoolers), e-mail interviewed me for their online publication. Here are the questions and my answers: 1) How long have you been homeschooling?  Six years 2) Do you have any tips for new homeschoolers that plan to have large families? [...]

I have had quite a few requests for a complete copy of my dissertation, The Authority of Church Elders in the New Testament. You can now download a pdf of the whole work here: The Authority of Church Elders in the New Testament

“Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep [...]

“Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.” Proverbs 27:10b Communicating long distance is ever becoming easier: long distance calls, online chatting, cell phones, video calls, e-mail, long distance travel, blogging, Facebook, internet communities, etc. We must not be fooled by soaking in cyber-“fellowship.” Nothing replaces consistent, flesh-and-blood, face [...]

I was at a wedding once talking with an old “friend” I had not seen in a long time. We caught up for 10 to 15 minutes. As that conversation ended, I immediately ran into a close friend of mine. He took one look at me and said, “You’ve got cake on your face.” So [...]