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- Added June 16 — The latest installment of the Opening the Scriptures newsletter: Issue 4/3 — June 16, 2026 — A Bona Fide Spiritual Adviser
- AddedJune 15 — To the Sermons and Class Notes, Bible Text Studies Page, Colossians Class Notes: You've Died and Been Raised: Act Like It (Colossians 3.1–11)
- Added June 9 — The latest issue of The Berea Page: Completing Christ's Afflictions (Issue 7/15 – June 9, 2026)
An Announcement about the Future of My Writing Ministry
March 9, 2026 — As one who has been blessed with the talent and interest in writing, I have always made it an important part of my ministry. At this point in my life, it is the primary focus of my service. My aim is to prepare substantive teaching materials for the church drawn from my study of the biblical text and related topics. I do this in the interest of informing and equipping a wider audience for service.
To sustain this service, financial support is needed. I am happy to announce that the College Church of Christ in Searcy, AR—my home church since 2015—is now supporting my writing ministry and will manage the contributions necessary to help sustain and expand it. My goal is to raise sufficient funds on a monthly basis to underwrite basic living expenses and provide a cushion for other periodic needs (e.g., auto repairs).
For additional information, go to the Writing Ministry page for an overview of the ministry's purpose, goals, and needs. To read the College Church's endorsement, click here.
Note: While one-time user donations are appreciated, the materials on this website, as well as the Berea Page and Opening the Scriptures teaching newsletters, will continue to be offered free as a service to page visitors and subscribers.
To sustain this service, financial support is needed. I am happy to announce that the College Church of Christ in Searcy, AR—my home church since 2015—is now supporting my writing ministry and will manage the contributions necessary to help sustain and expand it. My goal is to raise sufficient funds on a monthly basis to underwrite basic living expenses and provide a cushion for other periodic needs (e.g., auto repairs).
For additional information, go to the Writing Ministry page for an overview of the ministry's purpose, goals, and needs. To read the College Church's endorsement, click here.
Note: While one-time user donations are appreciated, the materials on this website, as well as the Berea Page and Opening the Scriptures teaching newsletters, will continue to be offered free as a service to page visitors and subscribers.
To make a one-time or sustaining donation to support my writing ministry, click the button below to go to the College Church giving page. In the dropdown box marked "Fund," select "Anguish Writing Ministry."
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- "To Think About" quotation from the latest Berea Page: "And first, a word of encouragement [for apologists]. Uneducated people are not irrational people. I have found that they will endure, and can follow, quite a lot of sustained argument if you go slowly. Often, indeed, the novelty of it (for they have seldom met it before) delights them. Do not attempt to water Christianity down. There must be no pretense that you can have it with the Supernatural left out. So far as I can see Christianity is precisely the one religion from which the miraculous cannot be separated. You must frankly argue for supernaturalism from the very outset.” ~ C. S. Lewis. 1970. “Christian Apologetics.” God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics. ed. Walter Hooper. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 99
- "Additional Thought" quotation from the latest Opening the Scriptures: “Peter addressed his epistle specifically to believers as ‘resident aliens’ in this world (1:1). He called on his readers to conduct themselves in reverence ‘during this time of temporary residence’ (1:17) and urged them as ‘aliens and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires that war against’ them (2:11). This ‘resident alien’ motif also lies at the foundation of how Peter conceived of believers’ identity in this life: this world is not their home; rather, they are pilgrims, strangers, and resident aliens.… Does our lifestyle reflect this reality? In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus warned us against amassing treasures on earth. Materialism is rampant in our culture, especially among many young people. It often appears that their lives depend on whether they are able to get the latest gadget in the moment it is released on the market. To make matters worse, this materialism has crept in from the general culture into the church." ~ Andreas J. Köstenberger, L. Scott Kellum, and Charles L. Quarles. 2009. The Cradle, the Cross, and the Crown: An Introduction to the New Testament. B & H Academic, 739
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