Bye Bye To Riseup

Well for the few of you that are still reading this I am saying so long to this blog. My blogs will now be posted at andybship.tumblr.com

This site will let me post audio on my blog. So after a few weeks I will be closing this account.

Glory To God

This past weekend I went to Knoxville TN to preach at a D-Now weekend for the folks at Ebenezer Baptist Church. The theme was the Atonement. Session one was about the bad news...the total depravity of man...the sin nature that we were born with that Ephesians 2 tells us makes us children of wrath. To bring this message to a close I spent some time teaching the students what a crucifixion was like. Just preaching that overwhelmed me and many in the audience. Then we sang a song called Glory to God Forever. It was some of the best worship.

This got me thinking about worship. Why do we sing and pray first then preach on sundays? Shouldn't worship be our response to God; His nature and will revealed to us by the Word?

Just a thought if anyone is still reading this thing.

Eating Bread Like Cooper

I have got bread on the brain because of the passage I am getting ready to exposit on Sunday. As I have been digging into the text I came to the realization that I want to dive into scripture like my daughter eats bread at a restaurant. Cooper will get me to butter up her bread then she will put the whole piece up to her face and literally gnaw away at the inner portion of the bread because that is the best part.

I am currently preaching through the miracles of Jesus from John's gospel account. This Sunday I am preaching from John 6:1-15...the feeding of the 5000. Something that God has shown me, through guys like Tim Keller, is that all of scripture is ultimately about Christ. Well my text this week couldn't be more true.

At face value the text we like to make this text more about Jesus doing a lot with a little or about the Short-sighted Disciples; like Philip and Andrew. However, a deeper look into the text shows us this is about Jesus; its about the Gospel. The bread of lowly beginnings is blessed by God, broken, then passed out to the masses for their filling, then there is enough left over to pick up 12 baskets (represents sustenance). This whole passage screams of what Jesus did. He came from lowly or humble beginnings; was broken then distributed to the masses; and there is enough of Him to sustain.

Tired of Religion

This if for the pastor that got in my face about not preaching from the King James and for the guy that told me Voddie Bauchaum is a heretic because his church doesn't do Sunday School and because he is a calvinist. I will let Mark Driscoll speak for me. Hope you enjoy.