Brett | January 20, 2010
I like hard books. Keller’s book is hard, not because of how it challenges my mind but by how it challenges my life. The book is broken into two parts, exegesis and practice. Both are necessary and it is helpful to have it in one volume.
Like so many conservative Christians I had political positions that [...]
Brett | January 4, 2010
It seems that there is no end to the books that aim to tell us how the church should look. On the one hand it can be very disorienting to get so many different viewpoints. There are two things to practice in sorting out all the information we receive. First, read each book with your [...]
Brett | December 28, 2009
The Second Coming, by John MacArthur, is a good dispensational book on end times. I am an amillennialist myself, but the Second Coming is worth the read no matter your perspective. There are two abuses that seem to attend books on end times. Either they are vitriolic and harsh toward dissenters, or they are wildly [...]
Brett | December 2, 2009
Kimberly Donald pleaded no contest to the charge of neglecting a child causing death in October. Her sentencing for the child neglect charge and a bail jumping charge was rescheduled Tuesday.
Racine police went to Donald’s home on Feb. 6, 2007 to investigate Nile Williams’ death. Reports said an investigator noted that the baby’s skin hung [...]
Brett | November 13, 2009
Albert Mohler recently posted some comments in regards to a recent trend in some churches to include pets in the service. He has 8 (more or less cumulative) points that he makes against the practice and they are all good. But I have one more I’d like to add. Before I do that let me [...]
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."
