Serious About Scripture

Mentoring and motivating Christ’s people to live his words

A Different Style of Evangelist: Laborers on the Loose

The disparity between what Christ and Paul did in evangelism and what we do, at least in the West, is dramatic. Let me explain a few of those differences: 1. The first radical departure from Jesus and Paul is our concept of time-specific, meeting-oriented evangelism. You will read in vain in the New Testament to find so many days of evangelistic preaching scheduled for Jesus or Paul and conducted at 7 p.m. in a certain location. You do not find…

The Staying Power of Mental Images

I will only use a short section of Matthew to illustrate the way John the Baptist spoke, which was characteristic of the prophets before him and of Jesus as well as Paul, and almost every other writer or speaker in the Bible. There is something to learn here from him about speech that is crafted to be remembered. Almost all you will memorize and quote supports this proposition: literary images are retained in the mind when mere argument is too…

Light Without Sun

There was light without a sun throughout eternity past, for God, though omnipresent, has always manifested himself in his throne room in unapproachable light. There was light without a sun called forth by God to shine on the watery dark world after it was created. Only later would the sun be given to govern the light. God once gave the world a vivid display of light without sun in the dwellings of the children of Israel on a dark night…

CCW Bible Intensives: Consider Taking a Group Deep-Dive into the Word of God

In 2012, CCW began to lead what we have called “Bible Intensives.” The idea came as a convergence of new personal experiences in the Scriptures. It was the result of much soul-searching about how to effectively involve other believers in a powerful and mutually stimulating experience with the Bible that would last. The aim was to see people at all stages of Bible knowledge and skill encounter a new level of experience with the word. What is a Bible Intensive…