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Adventures in Fishing for Men – A Humorous Satire of Evangelism

By Jeremy Myers
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Adventures in Fishing for Men – A Humorous Satire of Evangelism
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Don’t tell one more person about Jesus until you read my new book. Don’t attempt any more evangelism until you read it.

Seriously.

Most Christians are doing more harm than good with how they attempt to “share Jesus” with others.

Many of the modern “evangelistic” efforts of Christians only do harm to the cause of Christ and the message of the gospel.

If you want to see what I mean, I “explain” it all in parable form through my new book, (#AmazonAdLink) Adventures in Fishing for Men.

This book is an allegory, or parable, about evangelism. In it, a nameless man (Is it you? Is it me?) attempts to become a world-famous fisherman … all without ever catching any fish.

The book is funny, hilarious, entertaining, and most of all, insightful and instructional.

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This book was originally published back in 2012, but it has been significantly revised and expanded. It contains 50% new material, and also has a set of Discussion Questions to go along with each chapter.

These discussion questions will help you use this book for your small group class or Bible study. And since this book is humorous, if you use it for your small group Bible study or discussion group, it will be unlike any other study you have done. You will still learn, but through story and humor instead!

Did you want to learn about evangelism through humor?

Adventures in Fishing for MenJoin my discipleship group and take the course which is related to this book. When you take this course, you will also gain background information about each chapter in the book, as well as some discussion questions to help you think through the content of the chapters. If you just want to buy the book, you can get it on Amazon here.

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How Central is the Cross of Jesus to your Life and Theology?

By Jeremy Myers
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How Central is the Cross of Jesus to your Life and Theology?

Do you understand everything that occurred in the crucifixion of Jesus, and how central it is to your life and theology?

Whether you think so or not, let me introduce you to the cross of Jesus and how truly significant it really is.

For me, the death and resurrection of Jesus is the foundation to how I read and study Scripture. The cross is at the center of my theology. What Jesus did on the cross provides the pinnacle example of how Christians are to live our lives. Without the cross, there is no Gospel. And as Paul says, if Christ is not raised, our faith is in vain (1 Cor 15:17).

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I have written a lot on this blog about the death and resurrection of Jesus, and some people have asked that I make these posts more accessible to readers. So to help you see the same thing, I have decided to make several of my central blog posts about the death and resurrection of Jesus available to people by email.

If you want to receive my posts on the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus in your email inbox for you to read at your leisure, I have now created a way for you to do just that. To get started, add your name and email address in the form at the bottom of this post.

redeeming JesusThe crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus forms the foundation for everything I write on this blog. Everything.

What Jesus accomplished on the cross and through His resurrection is central to everything else. The death and resurrection of Jesus are not only central to Scripture and the Gospel, but are also central to learning (maybe for the first time) what God is like, and how we are supposed to live our lives as followers of Jesus.

By reading these emails, you are forming a firm foundation for understanding Scripture, theology, church, and life. You are gaining what I like to call “crucivision.” You will learn to see everything through the lens of Jesus Christ on the cross.

Fill out the form below to get started. I cannot wait for you to start fully understanding the significance of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.

There are about 26 emails in this series, and you will get one every Friday, which means that by getting these emails, you can spend the next six months focusing your mind on “Jesus Christ and Him Crucified.” This will be revolutionary for you. See you soon!

The cross of Jesus is CENTRAL to everything!

Transform your life and theology by focusing on the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus:

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Words of Calvinism and the Word of God

By Jeremy Myers
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Words of Calvinism and the Word of God

TULIP

As with much of what I write on this blog, my current blog series on Calvinism will eventually become a book. I have decided to call this book The Words of Calvinism and the Word of God. To make sure you get a free PDF of this book when it comes out, please request to get updates from me using one of the forms on this site.

Until then, I will try to update this page with the current list of blog posts on Calvinism. Please note that even though you will be able to read much of the content of this book using the links below, the final version of the book will be altered and updated to reflect additional research and any changes I might want to make to the posts based on the feedback and comments I receive on each individual post.

In other words, please read through the posts and leave comments! I value your input and learn from your suggestions — even if it is just to point out a typographical mistake!

So here are the posts in this series on Calvinism so far:

Introduction to Calvinsim

  • I believe in the Five Solas of the Reformation
  • My Personal History with Calvinism
  • A Brief History of John Calvin
  • A Brief Summary of Calvinism
  • A Summary of Calvinism from Calvinists
  • Calvinism’s TULIP by any other name still doesn’t smell as sweet

Calvinism and the Dictionary

  • Faith
    • What is Faith?
    • Are there Degrees of Faith?
    • Faith is not a Gift; Faith is not a Work
  • Gospel
    • What is the Gospel?
    • Jesus is the Gospel; Calvinism is Not
    • It’s impossible to believe the entire Gospel
  • Salvation
    • It’s possible to believe in Jesus but not be saved
    • I hope I get saved as I write this post (and you get saved reading it)
    • Salvation Confusion
  • Forgiveness – Two Kinds of Forgiveness: One is free; one is conditional
  • Repentance – Repentance is not a condition for eternal life
  • Eternal Life
    • Words that Do Not Refer to Eternal Life: Salvation and the Kingdom of Heaven
    • Words that Do Not Refer to Eternal Life: Inheritance and Reward
    • Words that Do Not Refer to Eternal Life: Justification, Sanctification, and Glorification
  • Grace
    • Scandalous, Outrageous, Shocking Grace
    • Grace is absolutely Free
    • Romans 6:1 as a Litmus Test for Grace
  • Calvinism and the NIV
  • 3 Tactics Calvinists Use Against Non-Calvinists

Total Depravity

  • Total Depravity According to Calvinists
    • Total Depravity as Total Inability
    • Do Humans Have Free Will? Calvinism Says No.
    • Dead in Sin: A Favorite Calvinistic Analogy
    • Is Faith a Work?
    • Is Faith a Gift from God?
    • Does Regeneration Precede Faith?
  • Total Depravity according to Scripture
    • Calvinism and Genesis 6:5
    • Genesis 6:6 and Genesis 8:21 do not teach Total Depravity
    • Are People Born in Sin? (Psalm 51:5)
    • Psalm 143:2 does not teach Total Inability
    • Does Ecclesiastes 7:20, 29 teach Total Depravity?
    • Isaiah 53:6 and Isaiah 64:6 Do Not Teach Total Depravity
    • Does Jeremiah 17:9 teach Total Depravity?
    • John 3:3 Does Not Teach Total Inability
    • John 6:44 is a key text for Total Depravity. Too bad it doesn’t teach it…
    • John 8:43 does not teach total inability
    • John 15:4-5 Does Not Teach Total Inability
    • Is Paul teaching Calvinism in Romans 3:10-12?
    • Paul Does Not Teach Total Depravity in Romans 3
    • Humans have three parts: Body, Soul, and Spirit
    • Romans 7: Did Paul Struggle with Sinful Flesh?
    • Romans 8:7-8, Enmity with God, and Calvinism
    • Can the Unbeliever Understand the Things of God? (1 Corinthians 2:14)
    • Removing the Veil from the Gospel – 2 Corinthians 4:3-4
    • 7 Uses of the word “Dead” in the New Testament
    • What does it mean to be dead in sin? Ephesians 2:1-3
    • The Secret Logic Behind Total Depravity
    • Is faith the gift of God in Ephesians 2:8-9?
    • Are All Gentiles Depraved in the Mind? (Ephesians 4:17-19)
    • If Judaizers are Right, then they’re Wrong (Titus 1:15)
    • Is the World Controlled by the Devil? 1 John 5:19
    • Why 1 John 5:1 does not teach that regeneration precedes faith
  • The Last Word on Total Depravity
    • What I believe about Total Inability
    • What I believe about Free Will
    • What it means to be Dead in Sin
    • Faith is NOT a Work
    • Faith is NOT a Gift from God
    • Regeneration Follows Faith
    • You Can Believe!

Unconditional Election

  • Unconditional Election According to Calvinists
    • The U in TULIP – Unconditional Election
    • Unconditional Election Quotes from Calvinists
    • Calvinist Quotes on Reprobation
  • Unconditional Election According to Scripture
    • Israel is God’s Chosen Nation … but what does that mean?
    • Jesus is the Elect One
    • The Church is an Elect People
    • Some Surprising Truths about God’s So-Called “Election” of Abram in Genesis 12:1-3
    • More Coming Soon!
  • The Last Word on Unconditional Election
    • Coming Soon!

Limited Atonement

  • Posts Coming Soon!

Irresistible Grace

  • Posts Coming Soon!

Perseverance of the Saints

  • Posts Coming Soon!

The Sovereignty of God

  • Posts Coming Soon!

 

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When God Pled Guilty

By Jeremy Myers
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When God Pled Guilty

When God pled GuiltyI tend to write my books on my blog. I do this for various reasons, one of which is that I desire input, questions, and suggestions from readers. The following posts are from my book When God Pled Guilty, which is an examination of how to understand the violent actions of God in the Old Testament in light of Jesus Christ, and especially, Jesus Christ dying for His enemies on the cross.

So read through the posts below, and join the conversation on each post. Also, invite others to read these posts by using the sharing buttons at the bottom, because many people struggle with how to understand the violence of God in the Bible.

When God Pled Guilty

  • Introduction: God is Guilty

Theories on the Violence of God in the Old Testament

  • Common Solutions to the Problem of Violence in the Old Testament
  • God, Violence, and Atheism
  • Allegorical Genocide
  • Is God Bipolar?
  • God-Inspired Error
  • The Kingdom of God vs. The Kingdom of God
  • Divine Accommodation to Violence
  • Bible Violence is Exaggerated
  • Sometimes Death is Merciful

My Proposal for Understanding the Violence of God in the Old Testament

  • Descriptions of a Violent God are Inspired and Inerrant
  • Jesus Rules
  • Read the Bible Backwards
  • Jesus Reveals Israel
  • Why Did Jesus Come to Earth?
  • Destroy the Devil’s Work
  • Cruciform God
  • The Love and Horror of the Cross
  • Jesus Became Sin for Us
  • A Proposal About the Violence of God in the Old Testament
  • A Light at the End of the Theological Tunnel
  • All War in Holy War
  • Is God a Murderer?
  • Satan Casts out Satan
  • How Satan Uses Religion to Cast out Satan
  • In Killing Jesus, Satan Cast out Satan
  • Why God Appears Violent in Scripture
  • God as a Divine Scapegoat
  • Jesus as a Divine Scapegoat
  • When the Fullness of Time Had Come
  • God is Not Angry With You
  • Why I Would Have Killed Jesus
  • We are Of Our Father, the Devil
  • God Takes on Our Violence
  • God Pleads Guilty
  • God the Sin Bearer
  • God is NOT Violent
  • Is God Lying about Violence in the Old Testament?
  • Let the Condemned God Die
  • Violence of God and the Love of Jesus
  • God Asks for our Forgiveness

Theological Chaos Theory

  • Chaos Theory and Violent Scriptures
  • God’s Policy of Non-Intervention
  • God is Not Absent
  • Why Nature is Destructive
  • Storms are Not From God
  • Incarnation of God in the Old Testament
  • God Appears Guilty; Just Like Jesus
  • Incarnation of God in the Violence of Israel
  • Satan seeks only to Destroy
  • God Sometimes Withdraws Protection
  • Bloody Jesus

The Violence of the Flood

  • Is the Flood a Beautiful Story about Rainbows?
  • Translations of Genesis 6:13
  • Context of Genesis 6-8 and the flood
  • The Flood and ANE Cosmology
  • How Genesis 8:21 reveals God’s Purpose in the Flood
  • The Flood According to Job 22:15-18
  • The Flood According to Isaiah 54:7-9
  • The Flood According to Jesus (Matthew 24)
  • The Flood According to 2 Peter 2:5-7
  • God Takes Responsibility for the Flood

More Coming Soon! Subscribe to the Blog to Keep Updated!

Miscellaneous Posts on the Violence of God in Scripture

  • The Violence of God and Evil
  • Did Jesus Condemn People? No!
  • John Piper on the Violence of God
  • Is God Lying About His Involvement in Violence?
  • Comparing God with Hitler
  • Is God a Psychotic Mass Murderer who Drowns Babies?
  • Where is Jesus in “The Bible”?

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How to Be the Church In Your Community

By Jeremy Myers
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How to Be the Church In Your Community

It is popular today for people to say, “Don’t go to church; BE the church.” Everybody nods their heads at this, but few actually know what it means or how to truly “be the church.” With this post, Sam Riviera is starting a series of posts on how to be the church in your community. If you have ever wondered how to be the church in your community, you don’t want to miss a post. I will try to put one up each Monday for the next several weeks.


be the churchWhen most people in our culture think of church, what comes to mind?

Most people think of church as a location with buildings and property, or as an organization. When asked about our relationship with “church”, people usually ask us  “Where do you go to church?”, “What church do you belong to?” or “Where is your church”?

While that understanding of church is common, my wife and I think of church as “those people who  follow Jesus.” For some, that may include properties, buildings, programs, staff, and all the other accouterments that go with the organizational, institutional understanding of church. For some of us, it does not.

While we find it important to gather with other believers to share the common hope we have in Jesus, we do not limit that to the organizational, institutional scenario.  We try to “be the church” in the community – every single day.

What Does It Look Like To “Be The Church In The Community”?

As we proceed through this series, I will give various examples of what this looks like for us and encourage you to share examples of what this looks like for you in your community. None of these examples are intended to be a model for you to follow. Instead, they are only instances that will not only help us to dream of what it looks like to be the church in our communities, but also help us to live out our calling to follow Jesus in our communities.

A Day in the Life of Being the Church

What does a typical day  of “being the church in the community” look like for us? I doubt that there is such a thing for us as a typical day, but I will describe what it looked like for us today.

After spending the morning on jury duty, I came home and changed to go running. First, however, I watered plants and pulled weeds for a neighbor who is out of town. Then I talked with another neighbor whose wife recently left him. I invited him to our upcoming block party.

After running, I talked to another neighbor about some details for the upcoming block party that she is helping us organize, then greeted another neighbor, a widow who told me her phones had not worked for two days and she could not call anyone because she had also lost her cell phone. A couple of hours later, we had determined that there was a problem with her phone system, and had found her cell phone so she could report the problem with her landline to her landline provider.

After my wife came home from work we walked through our neighborhood before leaving for our evening class. We greeted several neighbors, then drove to class. After class, we discovered a backpack in the parking lot next to our car. We opened it (No, it didn’t explode) and found a driver’s license, credit card and other personal items for a person vacationing from out of the area. With the help of a friend who has a smart phone app that found a phone number for the address on the driver’s license, we reached the owner of the backpack and arranged for her to pick up her backpack.

It Takes Nothing Big to Be the Church.

As you can see, nothing about our day would be material for a book or a mini series. It would never be  the sermon illustration for a mega-church sermon. Yet we see days like this as a somewhat typical day of being the church in the community.

To be the church, all we do is keep our eyes and ears open to the people around us, and try to show them love in whatever way we can.

In future posts we will look at various other ways we have sought to be the church in the community, will give examples of other people we know who are being the church in their communities, and will encourage you to give examples from your experience.

Be the Church in Your Community

Be the ChurchWant to be the church in your community but don't know? Here are some posts which not only explain what it means to be the church in your community, but also gives concrete, practical examples of what it looks like and how to be the church whatever you do and wherever you go. Remember, you ARE the church, and wherever you go, Jesus goes with you!
  • How to Be the Church in Your Community
  • The Tribe and the Church
  • Church Tribes vs. the Jesus Tribe
  • How to Preach the Gospel to your Neighbors
  • Being the Church is Loving the Person in Front of You
  • 4 Practical Suggestions for Being the Church in your Community
  • Love Like Jesus by Listening to People
  • Welcome New People to the Community
  • Finding Jesus in Denver
  • Loving Others at Walmart
If you have questions about how to be the church in your community, please let us know in the comment sections below, and we will try to write a post which answers your question.

God is Featured Bible & Theology Topics: be the church, church, Discipleship, evangelism, Jesus, Sam Riviera, Theology of the Church

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