Theology, opinion, fiction, and the occasional limerick.
The latest in a series of posts based on messages in Luke that we are currently preaching at the Ebenezer Regular Baptist Church. Luke, the historian with an agenda of communicating the truths of the Kingdom to his fellow Gentiles, has put together a group of incidents from the life of Christ that have as…
Death-defying taxi drivers, corrupt government officials, hordes of angry natives, Nazi robots… Wait…did you say Nazi robots? Yes. Yes we did. It’s all in a day’s work for the one and only Missionary Max. Missionary Max is a fictional character created by real-life missionary Andrew Comings. He (Max, not Andrew) is something of a cross…
The latest in a series of posts based on messages in Luke that we are currently preaching at the Ebenezer Regular Baptist Church. We now come to Luke 5:36-39, which has proven to be a knotty problem for many a theologian. What are the garments? What are the wineskins? What is Jesus talking about here?…
I’ve always enjoyed August. As a boy growing up in Upstate New York, August was the peak of summer, the halcyon days freedom and sunshine before the onslaught of cold weather, school, and other unpleasant things. For the past decade, as we have lived and worked here in Brazil, August has been the month where…
People are getting healed. Lives are being transformed. Truth is being expounded as never before. And yet, at this point in Jesus ministry, people have an urgent question that Jesus must answer: John’s disciples fast often and say prayers, and those of the Pharisees do the same, but Yours eat and drink. Do you catch…
Nothing makes legalists mad like seeing God’s grace applied to people they deem unfit. This truth can be seen clearly in the passage we will look at today. After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and He said to him, “Follow Me!” Now, right here…
Introduction If you were to ask me which scenes from Christ’s ministry I would like to have personally witnessed, this one would be on the top-ten list. Jesus is teaching in a crowded house, when suddenly He is interrupted by the sound of tiles scraping one against another. Small bits of brick and stucco began…
Dear Dr. Peterson, Let me start off by saying that I greatly appreciate you and the current impact you are having on society. You have caused many people to think about their presuppositions, to reject self-destructive life patterns, and, by no means least important, to generally reject socialist and totalitarian ideologies. And whenever this kind…
Note: Currently we are working through the book of Luke at the Ebenezer congregation. I have decided to start posting thoughts from our messages here (in English) in the hopes others may find them edifying. You can read the first in this series here and here So far, we have seen that Jesus healed the…
In posting examples of what the charismatic and neo-pentecostal movements have done to Brazilian evangelicalism, it’s not a case of me scrounging around to find videos. Rather, I have a growing archive, and the challenge is deciding which one to feature next. Seriously. So today I decided to go with this one. In it, a…