God’s Idea of Kingdom Work

ByAlex Franklin December 24, 2020 0 Comments
Photo Credit: Fauxels | "The Lord's work""Kingdom work""Church work" When you hear those phrases what types of things come to mind? Take a moment to think about it. Now, I'd be willing to bet your list most likely consisted of things like: professional ministry / preaching evangelizing / making converts planting church organizations mission work earning some sort of ministry degree attending (or...

Book Review: ‘Sola Scriptura’ [NIV] Reader’s Bible by Zondervan

ByAlex Franklin October 8, 2020 0 Comments
The next entry in my Book Review series, I'll be giving my review of the Sola Scriptura reader's bible by Zondervan . Reader's Bible Overview While this review is specifically about Zondervan's offering within the reader's bible realm -- the Sola Scriptura -- a good bit of this book review will be speaking to the merits of reader's bibles in general. For those unaware, reader's bibles are bibles...

Don’t Fight Naps

ByAlex Franklin September 25, 2020 0 Comments
My son doesn't love naps. Unless he's absolutely exhausted he tends to fight them, even though they're really good for him. The main reason is that he feels like he's missing something when he's taking one. But really the only thing that he's missing is rest and recovery. It hasn't clicked yet that when he gets a nap it makes the rest of his day (and everyone else's) generally more bearable. All...

Book Review: “Becoming a King” by Morgan Snyder

ByAlex Franklin September 12, 2020 0 Comments
The first (!) entry in my Book Review series, I'll be giving you a look at the recently-released offering from Morgan Snyder. Enjoy! Overview "Becoming a king is an invitation to a process of becoming the kind of man to whom God can entrust his kingdom. The greatest revolution in human history began through twelve men saying 'yes' to a personal invitation from the King of kings to recover the...

Fruit for the World

ByAlex Franklin July 16, 2020 2 Comments
| "Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. "I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such...

Church: Are We Built Around the Building?

ByAlex Franklin May 29, 2020 1 Comment
I believe that the Coronavirus pandemic has many profound lessons to teach us if we'll let it. The pandemic has revealed that we don't have nearly as much control as we think we do; And that our systems are not nearly as resilient as we'd like to believe. Our systems work great when conditions are optimal (or close to it), but the moment that equilibrium is significantly disrupted we find that...

Christianity is not a Religion

ByAlex Franklin May 2, 2020 6 Comments
| Neither the law of Moses, nor the life of Christ, were ever intended to be religions. Now, I would imagine after reading that statement you probably had one - or both - of the following reactions: "That's a bold statement, bro..." or"Yeah...not quite sure where dude's going with this..." Before you check-out, allow me to explain. To start, we first must define religion. Broadly speaking, the...

He is Dad First

ByAlex Franklin March 29, 2020 0 Comments
Note: This is something I wrote a few years ago when my oldest child was 2 years old. -- A realization dawned on me the other day when I was around the house with my 2-year old son…he only knows me as “Dad.” He knows what I look like, the sound of my voice, that I like to play and wrestle with him, and that my name is “Dad.” He doesn’t even know my full name. To him I’m just...