Holding the Church Hostage

Byhenry September 4, 2012

My quote of the day is from Ministry Matters:

Peace and progress are incompatible.

Author Dyton L. Owen also tells us when to let a church member go. Read the article!

Bible Backgrounds | Christianity | Exegesis

Inerrancy – Romancing the Term

Byhenry March 16, 2010

I’ve previously expressed my surprise about what some people can believe about the Bible and yet call their belief “inerrancy.” As an example, I responded to Earnest Lucas’s excellent commentary on Daniel in which he maintains that one can hold both inerrancy and a late dating of Daniel. I think a good one sentence summary…

Christian Ministry | Christianity

Preaching: Value and Practice

Byhenry January 24, 2017

Tonight I’ll be interviewing Dr. William Powell Tuck about the practice and value of preaching. Here’s the viewer. Learn More Learn More More Information Learn More

Dave Black preaching at Chumuckla Community Church

Christianity | Personal | Religion

Dave Black at Chumuckla Community Church

Byhenry September 6, 2015

I had the pleasure today of hosting Dr. David Alan Black at Chumuckla Community Church. I’ve been teaching there for the last five weeks, and preached once. Today Dave shared pictures of some of his mission work and also preached. His sermon was titled “Jesus and the 30 Year Transition, working from Luke 3:23. Well,…

Bible Study | Biblical Inerrancy | Biblical Inspiration | Christianity | Creation and Evolution

Newsweek on Billy Graham

Byhenry August 6, 2006

Newsweek has a good article on Billy Graham in its current issue, titled Pilgrim’s Progress. It’s a fairly long article that presents some interesting points. While Graham is certainly not abandoning any essentials of his faith, he does admit to softening on some things. I believe that the things he indicates Christians can appropriately disagree…

Books | Christian Mission | Christianity | Discipleship | United Methodist Church

My Latest Book (Partly)

Byhenry May 15, 2007

My new book wasn’t planned–by me, that is. Rev. Riley Richardson, pastor of Gonzalez United Methodist Church (and thus my pastor) were talking one day about books, and he said, “What I need is an extremely simple book that I can give to new members that will tell them what to do next and help…

Christian Ministry

Responding to Church Criticism

Byhenry August 30, 2017

Steven Cuss took to The Jesus Creed (Scot McKnight’s blog) to respond to Francis Chan about the church. This is all about a very valid and, I think, much needed conversation about the church. When we criticize the church in America there can be many responses. Defensive – we are really, truly doing good things…