Is God really all that interested in our efforts to make Him our own?

I don’t think so.  
I think He is busy trying to kill off our efforts.
I think our efforts at making God our own are misguided at best and very damaging at worst.
We are His own. He makes believers out of us. The person who believes he is still in charge needs to be killed off. [...]

Pastor’s class

Here is a class/bible study that I’ve edited (just to shorten it a bit) , but still left the gist of the class in tact.
It’s about 40 minutes, but is long enough to ruffle a few feathers and maybe open some eyes.
No doubt there will be detractors…and that is quite alright.
Listen in to Pastor Mark Anderson as [...]

Jesus’ conversation with Nicodemus

Nicodemus came to Jesus under cover of darkness to find out from Jesus just how all this ‘God stuff’ works.  And Jesus spells it all out… for Nicodemus…and for us.
   click here:  You-Must-Be-Born-Again

This sermon should raise the hackles on more than a few who sit in a pew.
 That’s ok… the truth often does that to the Old Adam and [...]

When did you accept Jesus?

“‘Well, I didn’t. He accepted me.”
No no no…I mean, when were you saved?
“Yesterday.     Today.     And tomorrow.”
Umm…you’re still not getting it…when did you become a Christian?
“At my baptism…when I was an infant.”
But babies cannot accept Christ!
“Now, you’re starting to get it.”
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Where in the New Testament does it say that one needs to accept Jesus as [...]

Free Will or Bound Will?

“If you begin with the assumption of freedom, the preoccupation is always how to keep freedom in check, how to bind; But if you begin with the assumption of bondage, the preoccupation is always how to set out the word that frees.”
                       – Gerhard Forde. The Captivation of the Will. p.21
What say you?

Baptism, and ‘free will”…

Here is a class/bible study that I’ve edited (just to shorten it a bit) , but still left the gist of the class in tact.
It’s about 40 minutes, but is long enough to ruffle a few feathers and maybe open some eyes.
No doubt there will be detractors…and that is quite alright.
Listen in to Pastor Mark Anderson as [...]

Free Will…do we have it?

One area where the Church often finds itself with divergent opinions is the subject of ‘free will’. There is one terrific example that Pastor Mark Anderson likes to bring up whenever speaking with folks that are in the ‘free will’ camp when it comes to choosing God and that is Saint Paul’s ‘free will‘. 
Do you [...]