1 Marks Interview Series: Kerry McGonigal, Preaching and Teaching Preaching
Right click here to download the interview. In the first installment of the 1Marks interview series, I spoke with Dr. Robert Bell about Old Testament stuff. In the second, I spoke with one of my pastors, Dr. Robert Vincent, about church and personal evangelism. Today we've reached the third installment. The topic is preaching, and the interviewee is Kerry McGonigal, an elder at my church and a friend who has taught homiletics at BJU since 2003. (Right click here to download the file.) Kerry is...
The Funniest Computer Problem I’ve Ever Had; OR, It Could Have Been a Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day
This story comes in two acts. ACT ONE: Last week I went on a professional development trip to Grand Rapids, Michigan. Because I love my iMac so, I carefully shut it down and even unplugged it before I left. I returned a week later in a flurry of activity. I had run back and forth four times between two concourses at the Atlanta airport trying to get on an earlier flight so I could pick up my wife and baby when they arrived in Greenville instead of arriving at the same time (I had forgotten to...
Love the Lord with All Your Heart
Several years ago our outreach pastor asked me to write some music for words by our church's resident lyricist, Eileen Berry. The purpose was to have a "theme song" for our church's Bible clubs. Because I worked at the weekly teen club, it also landed in the rotation there. Since then it's been sung many times at outreaches in the community. I'm not by any means a trained composer, but we needed something a little less formal than what our highly trained composers at the church usually...
NICOT and NICNT for Logos
The most valuable commentary set on the planet (by some estimates) is again available at the cheapest price Logos has ever given for it, $1,000.
Reports of the Death of English Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Poor English has been dying since at least the 17th century.