Serious About Scripture

Mentoring and motivating Christ’s people to live his words

In the Dining Area

There was a man I met Friday at a grocery store dining area. It was breakfast time. I was meeting my friend there instead of ChikfilA where we usually meet on Fridays because his car was being inspected close by. This man strangely sat down right next to us where he could hear everything we would say as we talked through a Bible passage. That seemed strange to me since every other seat in the place was available to him.…

My Gains Eaten Away: A Letter From Jim

Dear CCW family, In Earnest Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea, the superstitious old man on his dilapidated skiff had no luck catching any big fish for a long time, but this day as he allowed the wind to carry him out much further than before, and after nearly dying from exhaustion, he battled and conquered the big one. The fish strapped to the side of the skiff, he began his arduous trip back to the beach in Cuba where he…

Miss Hockingfield’s Waterloo

James, the youth: Why is Christ not beautiful to some people? Brockton, the older, and wiser: Because without eyes they cannot see. James: You mean such people are incapable of knowing Christ’s beauty? Brockton: Incapable because they are without desire; without desire because they are incapable. Miss Hockingfield’s story explains. It was “Art Museum Day” at Bussby Elementary, and Miss Hockingfield was ecstatic. She was a lover of beauty, an aficionado of all things lovely. It was on this day…

I Go Because I Like the Music: Really?

You could put the entire teaching about church music in the New Testament in a paragraph or two. Add to this teaching those spirited illustrations of corporate singing in heaven displayed in the last book of the Bible, when angels and throngs of people fill the air with thundering six to eight line choruses. When it comes to intentional instruction about music, however, there are really only four passages in the New Testament: Speaking to one another in psalms and…