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Category: Reid Ferguson

  • Tuning The Harp (3)

    Going all the way back to the 60’s (yeah, I go back even before that) – I heard discussions about how to make the Gospel relevant to people. Might I kindly but firmly say, that such thinking is completely upside down and misses the point of the Gospel entirely. In…

  • Tuning The Harp (2)

    When it comes to prayer, my thesis is simple; as Jesus taught us to pray, He did more than give us a rote model prayer to repeat. He gave us the chiefest tool for prayer in how His model functions. Let me try to explain by continuing with my tuning…

  • Tuning The Harp (1)

    Harps are mentioned over 30 times in the Bible. Most typically as an instrument of praise and worship. For most (I think), the image that comes to mind when the word harp is used, is some sort of cherubic plinking with soothing, pastoral tones. Maybe more like a lute or…

  • Contending For The Faith

    Jude 3-4 (Jude knows how to address priorities.) One of the destructive traits of our age, is the endless hype that surrounds communication – especially in the media. Everything is a crisis. Every election, the most important in history. No one can just be excited about something, they have to…

  • The Missing Piece 

    Maybe you’ve heard the saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. There was this old Mountain man who in later years found felling trees and cutting them up for firewood was getting too laborious. He heard about a newfangled machine called a chain saw that could really make…

  • Therefore

    It is an old Bible teacher’s quippy yarn that when you encounter the word “therefore” in the text, you should look above it to see what it is there for. It’s not exactly a hermeneutical principle, but it is worth considering in that it does indicate some kind of conclusion…