Fly Fishing Nor Cal
I specialize in fly fishing from a drift boat on the Lower Sacramento or wading the Upper Sacramento RiverNorthern California has some of the best fly fishing in the United States without the crowds that many of the rivers in Montana, Colorado, and Alaska attract. With year-round fisheries for trout, steelhead, striper, and more, it’s hard to imagine a better location for those who love fly fishing!
If you want to get out, you can book me through Confluence Outfitters.
New Blog Series: “Help! I’m preaching a sermon!”
We're starting a new blog category around these parts. We're calling it, "Help! I'm preaching a sermon!" Our goal is to get some of you fantastic biblical scholars, world class theologians, soccer moms, and right-wing fundamentalists to get involved in helping us...
Gregg Allison on the Definition of the Church…
Allison writes, "The church is the people of God who have been saved through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ and have been incorporated into his body through baptism with the Holy Spirit. It consists of two interrelated elements: the universal church is the...
A Kingdom-Lensed Approach to the Lord’s Supper…
If you have time, check out my friend Thomas Creedy's Society of Vineyard Scholars' 2013 paper, "Gathering for the Lord’s Supper - the Table at the Center." Creedy's paper is quite good and provides some healthy challenge to the view that I have had in the past and...
Misrepresenting the Vineyard: GotQuestions.org
See the introduction to this blog category for a background to why I'm taking the time to respond to some of these pages. One of the primary reasons why is because the people I serve as a pastor may take the time to read these pages, and I want to best serve them and...
Does the New Testament Teach Christians to Endure or Not?
Related to Matt. 24:33-34, John MacArthur writes the following statement: "... there is the total absense of New Testament instruction to the church as to how it should endure and conduct itself during the Tribulation." (Matthew 24-28, TMNTC, 65). Yes, he actually...
New Series: Misrepresenting the Vineyard Movement
As I've demonstrated in the past, it seems that there are some who have no desire to correctly represent the Vineyard Movement in their criticisms. This constant misrepresentation finds expression on the Internet and has even been expressed in conversations I have had...
Should Textual Criticism Find Expression on Sunday Morning?
I'm curious about whether any of you pastors and scholars have opinions on how textual criticism finds its way into sermons on Sunday. Perhaps the question needs to be stated as Should preachers talk about textual criticism? Some of you might be wondering what, on...
On the Intolerance of Today’s “Tolerance”
Wisely prophetic words here: "This shift from "accepting the existence of different views" to "acceptance of different views," from recognizing other people's right to have different beliefs or practices to accepting the differing views of other people, is subtle in...
Reza Aslan’s new book, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
I keep getting asked, "Have you read Reza Aslan's new book on Jesus?" No, I haven't. And I don't plan on reading it. I flipped through it and found the same old ideas that have been suggested in certain wings of "scholarship" that have been overturned time and time...
The Christian Call to Create Genuine Art
Artists, please unite around this statement by N.T. Wright, for it is a powerful paragraph: "It is, I believe, part of being made in God’s image that we are ourselves creators or at least procreators. The extraordinary ability to bring forth new life, supremely of...
