Isaac Comes Home

Christmas Baby. I was born on Dec 21 and they brought me home in a stocking.
Here is Isaac in the very same stocking!

(left ) Samantha was excited!  ”Baby, baby, baby . . .”  (right) photo opportunity

Giving Strategy

Highland Christian Fellowship finally has a presentable website (but there is still work to be done). We have added to the site a link that explains our “Giving Strategy.” Similar to the article “Ministry and Money,” this is the practical outworking of our conviction concerning how a church might handle finances in a biblical fashion.

We also started a community Facebook page.

“Don’t Ask”

The Ministry of a Father

My teaching on Father’s Day was from 1 Thess 2:11-12, The Ministry of a Father. You can listen to or download it from the audio player on the right sidebar. Here are the four main points:

1. A father’s ministry to his own children is unique.

2. A father’s ministry is to each individual child.

3. A father’s ministry is to lead his children into personal submission to God.

4. A father’s ministry is to encourage, comfort, and charge his children to live a life worthy of God.

Essays on Exegesis and Discourse Analysis

Here are some more essays that I keep getting hits for. Like the last few I uploaded, these two are from Ph.D. seminar papers.

Methods in New Testament Exegesis

A Discourse Analysis of Hebrews 10:19-25

This one, however, was published in the journal Filologia Neotestamentaria.

A Textual and Structural Analysis of Mark 16:9-20