The Rant

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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To Save part 1

03/01/2016 10:32

Salvation can kind of be a tricky subject. I think for most of the "Christian world" it means "salvation from hell." Which is strange to me because Jesus never talked about saving anybody from hell. (Unless you understand hell as the place of the dead. In which case that's exactly what He did. He...

To Seek part 5

02/29/2016 10:48

Seeking isn't about getting something you don't have. It's isn't about hide and seek, where God hides something and then expects you to do the work to find it. Seeking is about, "I once was lost, but now I'm found." JESUS is the one who came to seek and to save those who were lost. He found us...

To Seek part 4

02/28/2016 13:18

Seeking, in the sense of trying to find something that we don't have, is a never-ending struggle. Especially when we're looking here, there, and everywhere. Because the Kingdom is not here, or there. It is within us. So as long as we're looking without, we're looking for love in all the wrong...

To Seek part 3

02/27/2016 12:54

I want to link together two Bible verses that I think will really help us with this idea that seeking is something WE are supposed to do. The first one is Matthew 6:33, "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." Now before we go any...

To Seek part 2

02/26/2016 11:10

Jesus came to seek and to save that which was lost. Us, in other words. He came to shine the light into the darkness so that we might see things clearly--see things as they truly are. So the we might stop "seeking" Him. The lie that Eve swallowed way back in the misty garden of Eden was the one...

To Seek part 1

02/25/2016 11:57

The more I think about things in the upside-down view of the Kingdom--you know, lose your life to save it, first will be last and last first, and all that--the more I realize how backwards we have it. Like, we think WE need to do stuff. When, in truth, Jesus did it all. ALL. He finished the work....

DNA part 5

02/24/2016 11:00

Who am I? It's one of the most important questions we can ask (along with, "Where am I?" and "Why am I here?" which is why I wrote the Answer Trilogy). Because if we don't know who we are, we're always going to try to act like somebody else. There's a line in a song that says, "You've got to stand...

DNA part 4

02/23/2016 14:57

It's what's inside that makes you who you are. Not the external stuff, but the internal stuff. Jesus said it--in an admittedly negative seeming connotation--like this, "What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are so careful to clean the outside of the...

DNA part 3

02/22/2016 11:21

It's impossible to BE the real you unless you KNOW the real you. Until that happens, you will forever try (and fail) to be someone you're not. And that's pretty tragic. Heartbreaking. Because you were fearfully and wonderfully made. Made in the image of God, in fact. Which is why trying to act like...

DNA part 2

02/21/2016 12:45

There's old and there's new. (Even though, really, "new" is just a return to the original.) The Old Covenant and the New Covenant. The blood that is the life of the flesh, and the blood of the Lamb that is eternal life. Jesus said it like this, "For this is my blood of the new testament, which is...

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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...