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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Resurrection Life part 4

12/15/2020 17:37

There's a huge difference between "life" and "Resurrection Life." And that difference, in a Word, is love. Before the cross--and, in a very real way before we accept the truth of the cross through the act of water baptism--we were all dead men walking. We just stumbled around in the dark trying to...

Resurrection Life part 3

12/14/2020 19:54

"Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his...

Resurrection Life part 2

12/13/2020 20:07

Let's really get into this. Our key verse for this series is John 11:25, but before I quote it again I want to back up and get the previous verse too. "Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day" (John 11:24). That's such a religious mindset. We think...

Resurrection Life part 1

12/12/2020 18:46

I'm stuck on this idea of life. So, as my pastor once taught me, I'm just going to preach it until I'm empty on it. In our last Rant series I spent some time trying to look at the difference between life and death. That difference, of course, being love. No love... no life. Know love... know life!...

Alive part 5

12/11/2020 19:52

The secret of life is... living. It's knowing what you've got instead of constantly trying to chase what you think you haven't got. Its doing what Romans 6:11 says. "Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto usin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord." It's that...

Alive part 4

12/10/2020 20:01

No love... no life. Know love... know life! That's about as simple as I can make it. To live is to love and to love is to live. But here's the important part: We know that we have passed from death to life because we love the brethren. We have to understand that we were dead. That, in fact, we ARE...

Alive part 3

12/09/2020 17:50

Jesus came that we might have life. He knew the problem wasn't good vs evil. Both of those are on the same tree. The tree that can't bear any fruit. We keep trying to turn over a new leaf, but until we get onto an entirely different tree there can never be real, true, lasting change. That's why...

Alive part 2

12/08/2020 17:53

One of my favorite things that Jesus said is, "The thief cometh not but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly" (John 10:10). And I always like to point out that the thief Jesus was talking about in this passage of...

Alive part 1

12/07/2020 17:45

Jesus didn't come to make bad people good. He came to make dead people alive. This, to me, is such an important distinction. If you see yourself (or others) as good or bad, you're eating from the wrong tree. The tree of knowledge of good and evil is the tree of death. That is literally what...

Fear Not part 5

12/06/2020 18:03

If you're afraid of God you'll run from Him instead of to Him. That's kind of my point for this Rant series. Look at Genesis 3:8, "And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst...

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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...