I’ve just returned from another trip to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. This trip was a unique opportunity to participate in the ordination of not just one pastor, not two pastors, but seven pastors. Eastside Baptist now has before us one of the most challenging days in her history. Four of these seven pastors are looking to Eastside…
Burning in the Soul
For best results, join me at Eastside Baptist Church in Twin Falls, Idaho as we continue our “Burning in the Soul” preaching series. If you are unable to gather in person with us tonight, consider listening in online as Dan Coburn preaches what is burning in his soul at 6:30 p.m. UPDATED: Sermon Title: Who Hates…
The Problem of Self-Focused Self-Esteem
The Problem of Self-Focused Self-Esteem In this temporal world the follower of the Lord Jesus the Christ must look beyond all things temporal to find one’s esteem. This value or esteem we are searching for will either be rooted in the temporal or the eternal. When our esteem is rooted in the ancient sin of…
News Feed Algorithms
I’m no mathematician. The smart thinking of Tim Challies explains the matter of social media algorithms. Every time I learn how to get a blog post to get more traffic I learn that new algorithms are being unleashed and everything I thought I knew is now outdated. That’s the way a user of a product…
Meet Dan Coburn
The next Burning in the Soul series is this coming Lord’s Day, April 8, 2018 at 6:30 p.m. at Eastside Baptist Church in Twin Falls, Idaho. I’m pleased to introduce you to Dan Coburn. Dan, and his wife Karon, have lived in Cottonwood, Idaho for the past fourteen years. Dan is the pastor of Emmanuel…
The Inauguration of the New Covenant
Thursday of Holy Week is known as “New Covenant Thursday”. Some religious circles call it “Maundy Thursday” and attention is given to washing of feet and/or giving to the poor. Where it is always a good thing to give attention to living in humility and being generous and kind to the poor, the emphasis in…
When Leadership Falls
My point in this post is not to be a “news breaker”. If you hear of this first here it is not because I’m a news source. My purpose is primarily to warn myself, my fellow pastors, and the faithful church I pastor to be on guard, always. The news of Dr. Frank Page resigning/retiring…
Sneak Peek at My New Study/Library
By the kindness of God, to provide a skilled craftsman and a generous church, I will have a functioning study library soon. This will be the first time in all my days of pastoring that I will have a space for every book on the bookshelf at the same time. It’s not that I started…
Father, Glorify your Name!
“Father, glorify your name.” then a voice came out of heaven: “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.” (John 12:28) This coming Lord’s Day I will take a side path in the Isaiah preaching series and move to the Gospel of John (12:20-50). This is a four message examination of this passage…
The Nature of God
NOTE: This is the print version of my defense on the Biblical nature of God at an inter-religious dialog group I belong to. This is a monthly gathering of different religious leaders of different religions intended to have honest dialog about what we believe. Not an exercise of universally ecumenical platitudes of different ways of…