Recent content by Dr. Bob

A-1 but only in the Anchorage and Valley (100 miles). More time south (Seward, Sodoltna) joke to call it "interstate" as most is just 2-lane typical state highway. Did run to Fairbanks and time in the pipeline at Big Delta/Delta Junction. Car troubles stopped me from seeing dear friends in Tok...

Great resource for ANY size church for youth program. Inexpensive. Buy low=cost programs customized to your church. Doug and Josh are about the most qualified men to start this ministry TO youth workers/churches. Disclosure: Josh is my 50-year-old son and I raised him right. :)...

Yes. including references. Church Mutual Insurance has requirements and information on how/what to do and our church followed it to the "T". Guarding precious children and teens and their families was job 2 (after the spiritual focus).

Thank you for sharing. Interesting story, for sure.

The survey didn't, but I'd assume that many see church as either simply a religious duty to "earn points with God" OR as a type of social gathering (like the country club or the local tavern) Sadly.

I try NEVER to say that - if I'm asked a tough question, I just don't answer until I've had opportunity myself to study it out. I don't know YET but I will!! And on some, all you get is opinion and general thoughts, NOT an "answer". :)

Welcome. If you have questions about some of the people who post here, join the club. We ALL have questions!! But Bible questions and understanding for the sake of KNOWING and LIVING the Word is our goal. Some come to argue (they have the spiritual gift of orneriness and use dill pickle...

Me 18 years ago v my pix now

Old thread that did not impact me 15 years ago. Our mission church was "family" oriented, small, and did nothing special for ANY age group. Now I'm aged and gray and see the expanding Boomer population 65-80 are the MOST UNDERSERVED segment of society and in our churches. Most churches have...

CHURCHES: **Over 15,000 churches will close in 2025; only about 4,000 new churches will be started **46% of Americans believe church is important to them now, down from average of 70% for last 6 decades **Over half of churches in America cannot pay their pastor a full-time salary (many part-time...

I pointer. I've always held that if a person truly believes man is completely unable to seek, search, will, want, desire, decide, do good (in sight of God), make righteous decisions, incapable of one iota of salvation, that man's will is 100% in bondage to our sin nature, then man MUST realize...

Won't argue either, but "other side of the fence"?? It's up to man to understand and figure it out . . . and some smart ones will and other dumb ones won't? That seems horrifically close to "works" salvation instead of God's grace salvation.

Foreign translators CAN'T use the same Greek the Anglicans used in 1611 since that collection of Greek texts DOES NOT EXIST. Remember, it is not ONE document, but many that were compiled as considered the "best" and history records that compilation was burned. Now the sect simply has to say...

The repentance/faith in the Gospel (obviously implying a true God, true worship, true sinfulness that demands salvation) is very clear. BUT you must have a soul-level change in the person reading or hearing it so that they WILL understand. Left on our own, man is incapable of this spiritual...

I cannot imagine an entire settlement of English men/women/children simply "assimilated" with natives and no trace found? That is beyond a stretch. I could envision a battle, men killed and women/children assimilated. But there would be evidence of this.