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.
Contextualization in World Missions, by A. Scott Moreau
While I'm not a missiologist, I am very interested in issues related to missions, evangelism, and contextualization. Not only am I interested in those subjects from a biblical perspective, I'm also interested in how those principles are extracted and then applied. How...
You Might be a Pharisee if…
Interested in a quick and easy way to reject a person who you don't see eye to eye with? It's quite simple... just call them a pharisee. If you think someone is being "legalistic," than they are just a pharisee. If someone won't embrace the "new move of God," than...
The Handy Guide to New Testament Greek, by Douglas S. Huffman
Looking for a companion to your Greek New Testament? Something to help your exegesis? I'd like to strongly recommend that you pick up a copy of Douglas S. Huffman's The Handy Guide to New Testament Greek. Huffman is a professor at Biola University and has done an...
Grudem on the Necessity of Baptism
Now I realize that the concept of Justification and Salvation and Baptism carry a lot of theological "baggage" because, depending upon the tradition you come from, those terms may mean different things. But as a convinced Reformed Protestant Baptistic Continuationist,...
Happy Holidays from the Geraty’s
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A Basic Overview of the Structure for the Book of Acts
Once I've decided to preach through a book of the Bible, I like to form some sort of a "homiletic outline" that helps me break a book up into sections to preach through. Sometimes chapter markers can be helpful and sometimes they are absolutely misplaced. Thus, it's...
“This Sermon Sucks… What Should I Do?”
During my first year of pastoring, we had a guest speaker come and preach for us. He had been the pastor for a couple in our church and had been in ministry for a number of years. Actually, he had a ton of experience. This wise pastor knew that I was brand new to...
Theology: the Red-Headed Step-Child of Christian Retail
I stopped by the local Christian bookstore today because I needed to get a couple books for leadership that I've been looking for and I was hoping they carried them. As I walked around the bookstore, I could not find the "theology" section or the "church leadership"...
No! The Old Testament Saints Were Not “Saved” by Works!
It happened again. I was listening to a popular radio preacher and they repeated an idea I have heard many times in my life. He stated that in the Old Testament, people were "saved" by obeying the Law and in the New Testament, people are "saved" by faith. I almost...
The “What” and “Why” of Small Groups (9 of 10)
Continuing some foundational reasons to participate in small groups, Gareth Icenogle writes, "The ecclesia are small groups of Christians who are scattered around the world, bound together by a common Spirit. Meeting in all arenas of human systems and organizations,...
