Extrabiblical Revelation: Being Chained to the Ocean Floor (repost)

Here's a repost from August of 2018, back in the infancy of Things Above Us, that we think might encourage you today. Here in the DFW area, much has been made lately concerning Matt Chandler of The Village Church having encouraged his congregation(s) to seek extrabiblical revelation in the form of visual images. I thought …

Book Excerpt: “Give Me a Sign!”

I've been sitting on a 25,000-word book manuscript for quite some time now. Its name is How to Be Made Holy, and it's meant to be a book that a Christian can hand to an unbeliever after an evangelistic encounter. Think of it as "Here's everything I wanted to tell you but didn't have three hours to …

Extrabiblical Revelation: Being Chained to the Ocean Floor

Here in the DFW area, much has been made lately concerning Matt Chandler of The Village Church having encouraged his congregation(s) to seek extrabiblical revelation in the form of visual images. I thought I might relay to you my own story concerning a similar experience. As a matter of background, I was saved in 1997 …

Book Review — God Speed by Chad Bonham

There were two primary things I didn't know about God Speed before it arrived by parcel. First, it doesn't center around driver Sage Karam's struggle following an accident that killed fellow driver Justin Wilson, though the story does occupy a couple of chapters. Much of that story can be found in a recent FCA article, also …

Does Proverbs 29:18 teach “vision casting”?

Where there is no vision, the people perish: —Proverbs 29:18a KJV Advocates of "vision casting," the doctrine whereby church leaders receive "vision" directly from God concerning how to plan church growth, often use Proverbs 29:18 as a proof-text.  This is a misuse of the text. The word "vision" here in Hebrew is חָזוֹן (chazown), and its …