Ask Pastor Dave Ask Pastor Dave: What is the Conscience? 6 Aug 2015 The conscience is that Jiminy-Cricket-esq voice inside our heads speaking to us about what is right and what is wrong. It's an innate sense of morality hard-wired into humanity. The…
Counseling Crisis Counseling Initiative: Continued Growth 5 Aug 2015 The goal of formal Biblical counseling is, in part, to help people get to a place where they no longer need formal Biblical counseling. That is to say, our desire…
Old Testament Studies in Leviticus: The Sinfulness of Man 4 Aug 20154 Aug 2015 Leviticus assumes both the holiness of God and the sinfulness of man. You will not find a thorough theological argument for these doctrines, yet the lie at the very foundations…
Books A Review of “Spiritual Friendship” by Welsey Hill 3 Aug 2015 How should we think about friendship? By in large, the present culture we live in - even within the church - views friendship as a nice, but optional benefit. It…
Personal Monthly Love: July 1 Aug 2015 Here's what I loved in the month of July: 1. U.S. Women's National Team I do actually enjoy soccer...well, sort of. Of all the sports it's the only one I…
Reading This Week’s Good Reads 1 Aug 20151 Aug 2015 Here's a collection of interesting articles from around the web. Check it out, there's bound to be something here that interests you: 1. "The Bearable Weight of Being" by Amy…
Uncategorized Next Week 31 Jul 2015 Next week I'll be returning to semi-regular blogging. Here's what you can expect: 1. A review of Spiritual Friendship by Wesley Hill I loved this book, it's easily been one…
Books A Review of “You Can Change” by Tim Chester 27 Jul 2015 Writing with a very sensitive tone, Tim Chester has, nonetheless, a very positive message for those stuck in life-dominating sins: you can change. It’s possible. Not on your own, of…
Reading This Week’s Good Reads 25 Jul 201525 Jul 2015 Here's this week's collection of interesting articles from around the web: 1. "Psychiatry's Identity Crisis" by Richard Friedman The New York Times ran this piece which echoes many concerns that…
Books A Review of “Same-Sex Attraction and the Church” by Ed Shaw 24 Jul 201524 Jul 2015 “We have a plausibility issue,” says Ed Shaw (21). The shift in opinions on gay marriage is not fundamentally an issue of Biblical exegesis; it’s an issue of practical plausibility.…