Brett | August 23, 2010
His Person
The Lord’s Supper is a time of remembrance. I fear that we do not remember as we ought. So often we partake of the elements with almost no thought given to who Jesus is and what he did. It is a part of our service, but it is not a reflective part of [...]
Brett | August 16, 2010
Acknowledgment of Guilt & Judgment
1 Peter 3:20-21 they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water. 21 Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as [...]
Brett | August 3, 2010
What style of worship should we do? This is where the worship wars have been fought. Do you do traditional worship or contemporary worship? I like what Michael Horton has to say about style:
I resist the labels “traditional worship” and “contemporary worship.” Both terms imply that our worship debates are over [...]
Brett | July 22, 2010
Our enemies try to attack us by making us do what comes natural. “Do what feel right.” “If it feels so good it can’t be bad.” Our nature is evil, so if the enemy can get us to do what comes naturally, he has already won.
Jer 13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his [...]
Brett | July 19, 2010
The church militant is all the believers currently on earth. “Militant” does not refer to aggressive or hard-line people. It does not refer to some extreme kind of Christian in the same way the media uses the term “Islamic militants.” Rather, you and I are still engaged in battle. We still [...]
Brett | July 14, 2010
Matthew 7:16 You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?17 So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. 18 A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does [...]
Brett | May 26, 2010
The term ecclesia is the most used term in the NT for the church. It comes from the Greek word ek which means out and the word kaleo which means to call. Thus ek kaleo or ecclesia means the called out ones. The church is composed of those who receive a calling. [...]
Brett | April 5, 2010
Fighting Dullness with Entertainment
Many people think of worship as dull and boring. Many churches, in an effort to overcome this dullness, try to make their services energetic, loud, contemporary, or anything else that may help to entertain people so they don’t think it is boring. But this is a fundamental misunderstanding [...]
O men of the world! what good can you desire which is not in Christ? The excellencies of earth are but His footstool; the excellencies of heaven are but His throne! How excellent, then, must He himself be! -James Meikle
My Name is Brett Scollard. I am husband to the most amazing woman in the world, father to 7 wonderful kids and pastor of Grace Community Church in McCook Nebraska. I am confessionally a Reformed Baptist. I run this blog as a means to sharpen and be sharpened so that we may all, "grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ."
