I received in the mail a Boy Scouts of America Charter certificate granted to our church family, Berean Baptist Church in Ammon, Idaho.  We are Pack #370.  Our first official pack meeting will be this next Monday, June 30^th, at 7:00 p.m.  You are welcome to visit.  On Monday, I read this in the first Scouting magazine, arriving in my personal mail: (more…)

From your perspective, did I miss anything significant in this internet face of Idahoan evangelicalism?

Read these articles: (more…)

Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep” (more…)

This last Wednesday, we looked at Isaiah 56 as the next chapter in our inductive study.

Tomorrow, we shall examine John 10:11-18.

It is an incredible, radical Isaianic-Johannine connection.

John’s hinge back to Isaiah is verse 16.  Do you see it?

How does the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 2008 deal with this verse?

It’s 11:44 pm.  I am wide awake.

The Bible refers to Jesus Christ by many titles.  He is called the Amen (Rev. 3:14; cf. 2 Cor. 1:20), the Alpha and the Omega (Rev. 22:13), the Advocate (I John 2:1), the Apostle (Heb. 3:1), the Author and Perfecter of faith (Heb. 12:2), the Author of salvation (Heb. 2:10), the Beginning (source, origin) of the creation of God (Rev. 3:14), the Branch (Jer. 23:5), the Bread of Life (John 6:35), the Cornerstone (Eph. 2:20), the Consolation of Israel (Luke 2:25), the Counselor (Isa. 9:6), the Deliverer (Rom. 11:26), the Door of the sheep (John 10:7), Eternal Father (Isa. 9:6), the Faithful witness (Rev. 1:5), the First and the Last (Rev. 1:17), the Firstborn (Preeminent One) of the dead (Rev. 1:5) and over all creation (Col. 1:15), the Forerunner (Heb. 6:20), the Great High Priest (Heb. 4:14), God blessed forever (Rom. 9:5), the Guardian of souls (I Peter 2:25), the Head of the church (Col. 1:18 ), the Holy One of God (John 6:69), I AM (John 8:58 ), Immanuel (Isa. 7:14), the King of Israel (John 1:49; cf. Zech. 9:9), King of kings and Lord of lords (I Tim. 6:15), the last Adam (I Cor. 15:45), the Lamb of God (John 1:29), the Light of the World (John 8:12), the Lion of the tribe of Judah (Rev. 5:5), Lord (John 13:13), the Lord of Glory (I Cor. 2:8 ), the Mediator (I Tim. 2:5), the Messenger of the covenant (Mal. 3:1), the Messiah (John 1:41; 4:25-26), the Mighty God (Isa. 9:6), the Morning Star (Rev. 22:16), the Only Begotten (Unique One) from the Father (John 1:14), our Passover (I Cor. 5:7), the Prince of life (Acts 3:15), the Prince of Peace (Isa. 9:6), the Resurrection and the Life (John 11:25), the Righteous One (Acts 7:52), the Rock (I Cor. 10:4), the Root and Descendant of David (Rev. 22:16), the Root of Jesse (Isa. 11:10), the Ruler in Israel (Mic. 5:2; Matt. 2:6), the Ruler of the kings of the earth (Rev. 1:5), Savior (Luke 2:11; Titus 1:4), the Servant (Isa. 42:1), Shiloh (Gen. 49:10), the Son of the Blessed One (Mark 14:61), the Son of David (Matt. 12:23; 21:9), the Son of God (Luke 1:35), the Son of Man (John 5:27); the Son of the Most High (Luke 1:32), the Sun of Righteousness (Mal. 4:2), the Sunrise from on high (Luke 1:78 ), the True God (I John 5:20), the True Vine (John 15:1), the Way, the Truth, and the Life (John 14:6), the Word (John 1:1, 14), the Word of God (Rev. 19:13), and the Word of Life (I John 1:1).

But perhaps His most endearing and intimate title is that of Shepherd.

I would love for you all to come join me and hear from the Shepherd, the Good One in John 10 on tomorrow’s Lord’s Day morning.

Someday, will Mogget be teaching a class on fundamentalism?  If she does, I am wondering who she would pull in as a guest lecturer on the topic.  I do have a number of recommendations for the class exposure. 😉

Umm, she does parse the fundamentalist in this fashion within the thread of her musings on Catholicism and Modernity: (more…)

Last night, we had some of the church family come over to our house for some backyard fellowship. 

It was a beautiful evening: instruction from Proverbs, testimonies about our fathers, prayer, fellowship, food, and laughter.  Our children had a ball playing and romping around with the other children.

I am deeply thankful for my father, who is not only a great father but a terrific grandfather.

He helped us build our first church building.  And he is currently helping us on this second building. 

If you were to step in our church prayer room today, on the floor you would notice a large scrap of plywood.  This piece has been cut out of our north wall to make room for a serving window into the new fellowship/educational wing. 

Years ago, my father wrote on this piece of wood:

Be Content.  Philippians 4:11.  Elon Wood

I love my dad.

I know this post by Jim Getz would be of interest to my LDS O.T. academic friends.

Robb writes a post on critcism . . . and that there is too much of it in the body of Christ.

Emergent Christianity seems weary of valid critique within orthodox Christianity toward all the errant, frontier, entrepreneur, postmodern strands of evangelicalism.  Yet there is a place for critique among all who claim to be Christ’s sheep on this earth.  Some are not real sheep.  Some are not real shepherds (Isaiah 56:11, Ezekiel 34, John 10).