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A former co-worker coined the phrase when I offered to let her listen to one of my sermons on CD. She said, "Sure, I'll listen to Tom rant about Jesus." At first it sounded funny, but the more I thought about it the more it seemed to fit. That's what we, as preachers, pretty much do. We rant about Jesus. In 1 Corinthians 2:2 the Apostle Paul says, "For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified." That's it. Jesus. Who He is, and what He did, and what it means for us. That's my job, or calling, or anointing. To preach Christ. Jesus is in every book of the Bible. The entire volume speaks of Him. If you don't see Jesus, you're looking at it wrong.

So that's what I'm going to continue to do in this forum: Rant about Jesus.

My hope is to Rant every night by 9:00 pm, so check daily for new blogs.

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Priorities part 4

11/06/2018 15:41

When you get your priorities straight you can focus on what's important and let go of what's not. Which is one way to find that inner (and outer) peace. Because, as we saw yesterday, its the peacemakers who are blessed. But you can't make peace until you have peace. You can't give what you don't...

Priorities part 3

11/05/2018 21:05

This one's a little personal. But you all know I like to use myself as an example, so that nobody else gets offended. Ok. I absolutely believe in turning the other cheek. Not retaliating. I always say, "Don't take things personally, even if they are." I also absolutely believe that once you've...

Priorities part 2

11/04/2018 12:44

Above all... love one another. That's about as simply as I can put it. And that, to me, is the Gospel. The good news. Because we know that God never requires anything that He doesn't first provide. So if His New Commandment (for the New Man) is to love one another as He has loved us... that means...

Priorities part 1

11/03/2018 19:18

I'm hard to bother. Almost completely unflappable. But one thing that gets me is when people don't put first things first. (That's another habbit of happy, successful people.) We get so distracted so often and let little things wreck us. We make mountains out of molehills. We do things because...

Judgment part 5

11/02/2018 17:15

I guess it comes down to the difference between passing judgment and executing judgment. Judging by appearance, and judging righteous judgment. Walking by sight, and walking by faith. Because--I'll say it one more time loud and proud--we judge all day every day. We judge everything. And sometimes,...

Judgment part 4

11/01/2018 19:58

People think the Bible says a lot of things that it doesn't really say. "Cleanliness is next to Godliness," for example. And, furthermore, you can make the Bible say just about anything you want it to say. So many people wrote it over so many hundreds of years. And, like, thousands of years ago....

Judgment part 3

10/31/2018 19:52

Now that we know what the judgment of God was--not a death sentence, but an eternal life sentence--we can execute that judgment. And, according to Psalm 149:9 it is not just something we SHOULD do. "To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD." Its...

Judgment part 2

10/30/2018 17:22

It occurs to me that before I expound upon the need--the honor!--of executing the judgment that has been passed down... we ought to first look at what that judgment was. Because, unfortunately, we have built a religion based on the false idea that God's judgment was a death sentence. We've built a...

Judgment part 1

10/29/2018 19:53

All I want to do for the next few days is talk about John 7:24. I think this is a criminally under-preached Bible verse. Because what we seem to tend to think of when we think about judgment is Matthew 7:1. So let's look at that first. "Judge not, that ye be not judged." And, right of the bat,...

Right part 5

10/28/2018 19:48

Doing the right thing isn't always easy. And it doesn't make everybody happy. Its impossible to make EVERYBODY happy. Because people want different things. So what's "right" for one person might not be "right" for the next. What I'm trying to say is: you can't worry about making everybody happy. In...

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EPIC

06/09/2014 13:05

The Answer Trilogy is done! EPIC (Eternal Purpose In Christ) is now available at www.amazon.com ! The e-book version is available for Kindle! Identity Crisis tells us who we are (Jesus, not Adam). Six Steps to the Throne tells us where we are (the Promised Land, the Kingdom of God). And now EPIC...

Six Steps to the Throne

01/19/2013 12:09

My new Jesus book, "Six Steps to the Throne," is available now in the store section and on www.amazon.com! It is a look at how we got to where we are in Christ. Jesus took Six Steps to the Throne (Crucified, Died, Buried, Quickened, Raised, Seated). This book will look at each step, and then it...

Identity Crisis

11/09/2012 15:39

My first book, Identity Crisis, is available now in the Store section, on Amazon.com, and in e-book form for Kindle, Nook, and iTunes iBooks. Identity Crisis tells us who we really are. It is a necessary book for anyone who has ever wondered why they're here or what their purpose is.

Book Excerpt

08/16/2012 17:28

Just a teaser... the first few pages of chapter 1 of Identity Crisis! Enjoy! Chapter 1. Two Men 1 Corinthians 15:44-49 says, "It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a...