Monthly Archives: December 2011

The Quincy Community Church is a Boston-area church plant by a group of former Harding students. And usually I’d be talking about their church planting effort. But today, it’s about their blog. There are 50,000,000,000,000,000 blogs on the Internet, give or … Continue reading →

Acts We now turn to the later verses in Acts – (Act 3:13-21 ESV)  13 The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered … Continue reading →

Luke Let’s look at how “repent” is used by Luke. We begin with John the Baptist – (Luk 3:3-9 ESV)  3 And he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of … Continue reading →

Barrett Jones is an offensive lineman for Alabama who just won the Outland Trophy. But there much more to him than that. Read about a young man of character here.

This is a longer post than usual, and I’m not entirely sure the topic justifies the length. We’ll see. But I think we’ve substantially misunderstood the meaning of “repent” in Acts 2:38. We’ve not been entirely wrong, but we’ve missed … Continue reading →

I just posted and then deleted a draft post on Acts 2:38. It won’t make much sense, because it’s not supposed to be posted until Parts 1 and 2 go up — and it was a draft. Wait for the … Continue reading →

I’ve been trying for hours to figure a way to post selected words in Greek or Hebrew (mainly Greek). I’d really like to be able to do that in the comments, as well. I’ve been through a dozen or more … Continue reading →

(Act 2:22-23 ESV) 22 “Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know — … Continue reading →

I’m posting one more history lesson on the congregational infighting that led to the split of the Restoration Movement over, among other things, the instrument. The first Restoration Movement church to have an instrument is the Midway Christian Church. This … Continue reading →