Category Archives: Theology

Downhill Bible Reading

Posted on April 5, 2020 by

Perhaps I’ve grabbed your attention with the weird title, but I should clarify that I’m not writing today to introduce you to some extreme sport that somehow combines rapid descending speeds with reading large books. The title is apt, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Assurance, Bible, Christian Formation, Practical Christianity, Reading and Study, Theology

Success Flows from Rightly Ordered Thinking…In Music and In Life

Posted on July 21, 2019 by

Instead of taking my usual summer break from blogging, over the past few weeks I have written a little series I have called “Essential Concepts in Brass Playing.” A recurring theme in each of those posts is the importance of … Continue reading →

Posted in Alto Trombone, Apologetics, Baritone Horn, Bass Trombone, Bible, Books, C.S. Lewis, Christ's Person and Work, Christian Worldview, David Hanscom, Essential Concepts in Brass Playing, Euphonium, Francis Schaeffer, Howard Schubiner, John Sarno, Music, Pain, Pedagogy, Performing, Physical Fitness, Playing Fundamentals, Political Systems, Practical Christianity, Practicing, Repentance, Society, Steve Ozanich, Teaching Low Brass, Tenor Trombone, Theology, Trombone, Truth, Tuba

Placing Scriptures and Praying for “Phillips:” an Exhortation for the Oxford Gideons “Rally Day”

Posted on April 28, 2019 by

Early this morning (28 April 2019) Gideons from throughout our region gathered at First Baptist Church of Oxford. The occasion was this year’s “Rally Day,” a day on which Gideon speakers visit numerous churches in an area in order to speak … Continue reading →

Posted in Bible, Evangelism, The Gideons International, Theology

“But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.”

Posted on March 6, 2019 by

The Mississippi Convention of The Gideons International was held this past weekend in Jackson, and as President of the Oxford Camp I was expected to attend and deliver our camp’s collected offerings at the President’s Breakfast on Saturday morning. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Bible, Christian Worldview, Colossians, Doctrine, Practical Christianity, Repentance, The Gideons International, Theology

“A Well-Regulated or Orderly Church Music…”

Posted on December 31, 2018 by

I have heard that the price of becoming a thinking adult is the need to deal with all of the paradoxes and inconsistencies that life presents, the cognitive dissonance that is inevitably present as we flawed and fallen humans do … Continue reading →

Posted in Beauty, Calvinism, Christian Worldview, Denominations, Doctrine, Doctrine of Vocation, Johann Sebastian Bach, Lord's Day, Music, Music and Theology, Music and Worship, Practical Christianity, Theology, Truth, Worship

On the Importance of “Faithful Plodding”

Posted on December 15, 2018 by

I am always moved by stories of pastors with long tenures in small congregations. In a time when “celebrity pastor” is a term that makes sense and so many build careers by moving to increasingly larger churches every 2-3 years, … Continue reading →

Posted in Alto Trombone, Bass Trombone, Christian Worldview, Church, Doctrine of Vocation, Education, Euphonium, Higher Education, Music, Music and Theology, Music Education, Pedagogy, Performing, Practical Christianity, Practicing, Prayer, Preaching, Salvation, Teachers, Teaching Low Brass, Tenor Trombone, Theology, Trombone, Trombone Ensembles, Tuba, Tuba-Euphonium Ensembles

In Praise of Small Churches

Posted on October 24, 2018 by

I’ve written previously in this space about my small role serving locally with The Gideons International. While I have at various times held different offices in the local “camps” of which I have been a part both in West Monroe, … Continue reading →

Posted in Church, The Gideons International, Theology, Worship