Monthly Archives: November 2009

Rebuilding the Pulpit

One of the abiding values of God’s Word is that we are privileged to see the true people of God being the people of God in a wide variety of situations.  We see them dancing on the shores of the Red Sea with tambourines in their hands… “I will sing unto the Lord for he [...]

For Such a Time as This

The following is the my Inauguration Address from Monday, November 9, 2009.  You can listen to the address on iTunes by clicking here.
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The ancient Greeks had two different words for time, chronos and kairos.  The first word, chronos, is where we get our word chronology from.  It refers to ordinary “clock time” which is measured in history [...]

The Church’s Ultimate Identity

Andrew Walls tells the story about an imaginary scholarly, intergalactic time traveler who gets periodic grants to travel to planet Earth to study the Christian religion.[1] He studies Christianity in Jerusalem at 37 C.E., again at Nicea at 325 C.E., in Scotland in the 7th century, London in the 1840’s and, finally, in Nigeria in [...]