There is Joy in the Lord Here is a Gospel sharing opportunity for you. These video Gospel tracts are intended for your use in sharing publicly or privately with friends, co-workers, acquaintances, anyone in general. The idea is that you might consider sharing one of these video excerpts from a recent sermon with your friends. I’ve…
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Prayer for the Next Generation
In the Lord’s way and in the Lord’s timing, He has blessed and is blessing Eastside Baptist Church with a generation of Children. Never in the history of Eastside Baptist Church has there been a season quite like this one. Five years ago Eastside asked God Almighty to forgive her of trusting in the methodologies…
Josiah’s Second Missionary Journey
A friend of mine and his dad just returned from a missionary journey to the Philippines. This LINK is to his blog – enjoy the Photos! I had breakfast with Josiah’s dad this morning (yes, at Chick-fil-A) and was blessed to hear a portion of the shared father/son on-mission journey. edited for spelling…
A Principled Family
A life well lived is a life lived by principle. It was July 17, 2004 south of Hansen, ID where I participated in a blessed day of the marriage of Ryan and Amie Franklin. It was the public declaration of two young adults bravely declaring they would devote themselves to each other “until death.” None…
Apparently the Pope Does Not Know the Gospel
I was hoping for better than this as my first political statement of the year: “Wait-a-minute! What did the Pope just say about the Gospel?” Today, according to all reports, the Roman Catholic pope, Francis, weighed in on presidential candidate, Donald Trump. This may go down as one of the worst theological statements of the current election…
The Sweetest Name I Know
New Series: From This Side of the Pulpit; A reflection of a preacher from his side of the pulpit. It was June, 2001 that the Lord’s people at Eastside Baptist Church invited me to become their pastor. While reflecting over the past 14 years of preaching I decided to hunt down a file of hand written…
We Stand Ready to Preach This Gospel
Dear Twin Falls and the Magic Valley, The born-again, repenters of unspeakable sins, who gather at 204 Eastland Drive North in Twin Falls, Idaho cried out to Jesus who delivered us from the wrath to come (1 Thessalonians 1:10) and found a solid ground to stand upon. By the grace of God we found a…
I’m Just A Bill?
Yesterday as Renee and I were walking up the steps of the Idaho Capitol Building I was trying to remember that classic School House Rock song “I’m Just A Bill”. I fear I could not recall many of the lyrics. But the real reason I was on Capitol Hill yesterday was of greater weight than…
What If God Were Against Us?
My speech to the House of Representatives State Affairs committee: The hearing can be viewed via live steaming here: http://www.idahoptv.org/insession/leg.cfm Colossians 1:9-23 (NASB) For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in…
the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ
Here are a series of questions with answers from the Bible with regard to the soul of all men and our greatest need. Why do I need to be rescued from the wrath of God? Because of the Holiness of God. “[God’s] eyes are too pure to approve evil, and [He] can not look on wickedness…