Dave Miller

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I don't plan to blog over the next couple of days.  I've got a video scheduled to post Christmas morning, but I certainly hope you've got better things to do over the next couple of days than to blog. I do. Have a cool Yule. … [Read more...] about See You Monday – Have a Merry Christmas

I'm a preacher's kid, so I grew up hearing 2 sermons a week, 52 weeks a year.  We didn't miss back then.  My dad was a bit of a fanatic about something that, I now know, was not so common back among preachers back then - verse-by-verse, expository preaching.  Since I sat under his preaching every week, I assumed everyone got out a Bible, tackled a passage and went through it verse after verse, picking up this week where we left off last week.  Dad didn't "do a series" - he preached a book. Romans.  Ephesians.  2 Peter.  I didn't know there was any other kind of preaching, except for dad's … [Read more...] about Why I Believe in Expository Preaching

I am a grandfather now and I am deeply concerned about how the church is ministering to and dealing with its children.  Of course, I want my grandchildren to be raised in the church, but is being raised in the church today that much different than the world?  The world my grandchildren will grow up in is a Pleasure Island  designed to seduce young Pinocchios into a life of servitude to sin.  But what is going on in the church?  I'm afraid that too often in our children and youth ministries we are trying to out Pleasure Island the Disney vision.  I am concerned that many of the trends designed … [Read more...] about What in God’s Name Are We Doing to Our Children?

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Watch this ten minute video and you will see some interesting things about this Christian quarterback phenom. Observations: 1) The way he deals with the receiver who dropped the easy TD pass should be shown to every leader. 2)  His calm demeanor in the most difficult and tumultuous circumstances. 3)  His prayer life.  He prays continually throughout the game.  I especially appreciated that he never asked God for the victory, but that in victory or defeat he would glorify Christ. 4)  Timmy can do anything except sing.  Oh, my, he butchers some praise choruses!  But hearing an … [Read more...] about Tebow Warning: Sound FX Reveals the Real Timmy

Let me begin with two admissions: 1)  Mark Driscoll's "I See Things" video is a little outside of my comfort zone. I've "heard God's Voice."  I've discerned the presence of demons.  I've had some insights into the future and into people's lives that I can't describe any other way than God's Spirit.  But I've never seen people's lives on a screen in front of me.  The extent of Driscoll's "visions" and the way he describes them are beyond my experience - uncomfortably so. 2)  If Benny Hinn or some other "charismaniac" said the same things, I'd probably be more likely to join into the … [Read more...] about Mark Driscoll “Sees Things” – I See the Rise of SES* in the SBC (*Supernaturalism Embarrassment Syndrome)

Have you caught the fever yet?   … [Read more...] about If Skip Bayless came to SBC Voices

Ed Stetzer released a post today called "Top Religion Stories of 2011 according to Huffpo."  According to the Huffington Post, the top 11 stories of the year in the world of religion are: The Muslim Spring The Dalai Lama Steps Down Mormons in Politics The Muslims Are Coming, The Muslims Are Coming The End of the World Presbyterians Acknowledge Gays and Lesbians Can Be Ministers The Struggle for the Soul of Yoga A Jewish American-Israeli Rift? Occupy Faith The New Mass Interfaith Secularists While there are still two and a half weeks left in the year, and there is … [Read more...] about SBC Voices 2011 “Top Ten” Baptist Blogging Issues and Events