That’s One Big Step for Ebenezer…
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That’s One Big Step for Ebenezer…

Last night marked a huge milestone for the Ebenezer Regular Baptist Church. Our founding church (Good News Regular Baptist) voted to officially grant us “emancipated” status. What this means is that we are no longer a congregation of that church, but a duly recognized, independent, Regular Baptist church. For a long time we have functioned…

“Only He Who Is Running Knows”*
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“Only He Who Is Running Knows”*

Some time ago I posted about the evolution of my daily running routine from “just something I did to stay healthy” to “a bunch of guys from the church bonding” to “official church running day”. Now, there is one more addition to the trajectory: “fund-raising for church construction”. This idea was actually born on one…

Four Generations of Music
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Four Generations of Music

Last weekend we held our seventh annual anniversary conference at the Ebenezer Regular Baptist Church. As part of the conference, my son Michael, a teen named Rodrigo, and myself performed a recorder arrangement of the hymn Holy, Holy, Holy. Go ahead and listen…then I’ll share a couple neat things about it. It goes without saying…

First-Century Theological Twitter: A Parable
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First-Century Theological Twitter: A Parable

Roman Province of Judea, ca 30 AD The Twitter-sphere erupted in outrage yesterday due to inflammatory remarks made by a popular Bible teacher from Nazareth. Jesus, referred to by some of his more radical followers as “the Christ”, reportedly used the terms “brood of vipers”, “whitewashed sepulchers” and “blind leaders of the blind” in reference…