Serious About Scripture

Mentoring and motivating Christ’s people to live his words

Cremation or Burial? (with “Reducing the Cost of Funerals”)

There is no sin in cremation, that is for sure. And there is no inability on God’s part to raise a cremated body from the dead. But is cremation, a practice most often seen in Eastern religions, the best for the believer in Christ? It is clarifying to note that burial was God’s preferred method of disposing of the body of Moses. God had the power to cremate Moses’ body on the spot, but rather, this gentle and loving phrase…

Reading the Entire New Testament in One Day at the Town Square

My dear friend who is a pastor and tireless evangelist, Adam Cutshaw (www.aof1.org) from Manchester, Tennessee, wrote to me about my book The Most Powerful Words: A Primer on the Public Reading of Scripture. I hope his words and story not only motivate you to read this short book, but also inspire you to think strategically about how you might read more Scripture not only in gatherings with other believers, but even in the open air. Here’s what Adam wrote…

One Another Commands: the Heart of Christian Fellowship

Be at peace with one another. Mk. 9:50Wash one another’s feet. Jn. 13:14Love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. Jn. 13:34Love one another with brotherly affection. Rom. 12:10Outdo one another in showing honor. Rom. 12:10Live in harmony with one another. Rom. 12:16Welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you. Rom. 15:7Greet one another with a holy kiss. Rom 16:16, 2 Cor. 13:12Wait for one another. 1 Cor. 11:33Comfort one another, agree…

A Different Style of Evangelist: Laborers on the Loose

The disparity between what Christ and Paul did in evangelism and what we do, at least in the West, is dramatic. Let me explain a few of those differences: 1. The first radical departure from Jesus and Paul is our concept of time-specific, meeting-oriented evangelism. You will read in vain in the New Testament to find so many days of evangelistic preaching scheduled for Jesus or Paul and conducted at 7 p.m. in a certain location. You do not find…