Category Archives: Youth Group Teaching
Gospel of Mark Notes
As mentioned in the previous post, I’m doing a 29-day walk-through of the Gospel of Mark with eight TFCers, reading about half a chapter each day and emailing study notes and devotional thoughts each day. At Jared’s request, I’m posting … Continue reading
Giving into Despair
I gave into some despair and depression last night and this morning, mainly triggered by (in the short term) all the things that went wrong last night and (in the long term) doubting my wisdom in big-picture goals and strategies. … Continue reading
Lost the Plot
It started when Derek and I preached through the gospel presentations in Acts. I began to see that something was seriously wrong – not just with my Christian walk, but with our Christian culture as a whole. The Newsboys said … Continue reading
Talk on 2 Peter 1a
Here it is! To appease those of you dying to dig into a discussion on the Millennium Translation, I’m posting the above video, a 45 minute teaching I did at Teens For Christ on Oct 27, where I outline the … Continue reading
Interpreting Scripture
Here is the PDF for Interpreting Scripture, the talk I gave Monday. If anything seems incoherent, I apologize: I lost all my work at 10:30am on Monday… and finally had it all re-written by 6pm. I was coming down with … Continue reading
The Boring Gospel retracted
I’ve just retracted my last blog post, “The Boring Gospel” — not because I found that I was in error, but rather because I realized it simply was not a blog post. It is far too long. So I’m reworking … Continue reading
The Highest Blessing
An Exploration of the Ninth Beatitude You would think Jesus He would kick off His instructions to His followers on how to live (Sermon on the Mount) by contrasting with the Pharisees’ hypocrisy. But He starts by pronouncing blessings – … Continue reading
