
Gems In Genesis: Garden Theology 12 - The Promise of Redemption
Road signs are important for many reasons. Signs not only point people into the right direction toward their destination, but they are...
Gems In Genesis: Garden Theology 11 - What Gives Sin Life?: Minimizing God's Word
Back in the day there was a phrase my friends and I used to say that was to give strength and believability to a comment. Whenever we...
Gems In Genesis: Garden Theology 10 - What Gives Sin Life?: Minimizing God's Love for Us
One of the realities that should guard the hearts of those who know Christ is His steadfast love for His Bride - the church. What is...
Gems In Genesis: Garden Theology 9 - What Gives Sin Life?: "Minimizing God's Lordship"
There is a hymn that speaks to the essence of what is true for all of us as we long to live and love the Lord with the whole of our...
Gems In Genesis: Garden Theology 8 - What We Know About the Devil - "He Is Clear"
It might seem a bit odd to ascribe clarity to the one I called crafty. However, what I mean by the devil being clear is not that he is...
Gems In Genesis: Garden Theology - What We Know About the Devil: "He Craves"
The devil is a created being who is crafty. In his craftiness his aim was and remain to deceive the people of God in such a way that we...
Gems In Genesis: Garden Theology 6: What We Know About the Devil - "He Is Crafty"
The devil is a created being. That is what we considered previously to show that his actions are never outside of the sovereign will of...
Gems In Genesis: Garden Theology 5: What We Know About the Devil
Part of the difficulty in Christian living is the worthy place we give to the devil. We grant to him power that is false and abilities in...
Gems In Genesis: Garden Theology 4: When the Word of God Is or Becomes Negotiable
We have been walking through what I have termed Garden Theology. At the heart of this phrase is the truth that everything we understand...
Tuesday Morning Pastor
Pastor's all over the country wish we could fit all of the sermon preparation into our Sunday messages. Sometimes it works out and...
Gems In Genesis: Garden Theology 3 - "The Silence of Adam"
It is said that everything rises or falls on leadership. Whether in church, business, or politics this truth has been played out in every...
Gems In Genesis: Garden Theology 2: The Place and Power of the Presence of God
Creation is what it is because it reflects the design of God and the presence of God. This is not a pantheistic way of viewing creation...
Gems In Genesis: Garden Theology Part 1 - Understanding and Undoing Shame
Genesis 3 is a crucial turning point in the opening narrative of the Bible. Everything about life, existence, man, woman, leadership,...
Gems In Genesis: Relationships God's Way
As the lead pastor of The Bridge Fellowship, I am often seeking to move the church to a place of increasing gospel-centered creativity. I...
Reflections On One More Year of Life
Today I turn 51 years old. In the grand scheme of things it is just another year but for me, the years become increasingly important and...
Gems In Genesis: The Necessary Place of Man In God's Work
It is an awesome wonder that God would create us in His own image and call us to rule as His representatives upon the earth. That is an...
Gems In Genesis: Light Conquers Darkness
The Bible is one large inclusion. An inclusio is a Biblical literary device that brackets information around similar thoughts or and...
Gems In Genesis: Imaging God
The word image is commonly defined as follows: likeness, resemblance; representation; sculpture, portrait, sketch, etc. These words...
Gems From Genesis: "The God Who Is and Speaks"
The idea of God is beyond the realm of the human imagination. Sure, men imagine God to be who they deem him to be, but this god ends up...




















