Listen below or subscribe on iTunes or Google Play Guest co-host Chase Stancle joins Noah to discuss “the sign gifts” of healing, tongues, prophecy, and miracles. The debate about these gifts has torn apart the church and left unbiblical teaching on both extremes. We wade through the confusion and abuses of an important but mysterious topic. You can […]
How to See the Supernatural
My 6-year-old daughter has been avidly reading her kids Bible. She’s read it through several times and is now excitedly reading her sister’s kids Bible, which her sister just got her for 5th birthday this week. Using sister’s birthday presents is always better than using your own, of course. These are the kids Bibles that […]
Suffering & Living Like this World is Heaven
Suffering is one of the most common reasons people doubt God. If God is so loving, how can such bad things happen? Trite statements by Christians only make this worse: Something good will come out this, just wait. God has a purpose for everything. Something good will come out of rape, child abuse, or the […]
Why Doesn’t God Make Himself More Obvious?
I just preached on John 6. This is the account where Jesus feeds around 20,000 people with only 5 loaves and 2 fish. What happens next is the people chase Jesus down. Imagine a throng of 20,000 people following you to your next destination! The people aren’t interested in putting their faith in Jesus though, […]
Being a Dad = Science Fiction
Well I became a dad on Monday, November 21st, at 4:12pm with the birth of our beautiful daughter Lexi Hope Filipiak, weighing in at 9lb 7oz, 22″. The thing about being a dad that is the most eye-opening for me is trying to wrap my head around the concept that this human life came from […]
Miracle Myths
On July 3rd, I preached a sermon entitled “Wanting a Prayer Answered But Needing Jesus” from John 6: [vimeo http://vimeo.com/26040686] In my own life, I’ve often found myself to be confused about why God doesn’t seem to answer my prayers for people’s healing (or at least not in dramatic ways), yet I read about dramatic […]