Parchment & Pen Blog

By now many of you have heard about the tornado that came through Oklahoma City/Moore a few hours ago. First, let me say that my family and I, the Credo House, and all who work for us are safe. Dan Wallace has been in town all weekend shooting the video for our new Credo Course. [...]

Friends of the Ministry, I have an incredibly exciting announcement to make. Many of you are all familiar with what we have done since 2001. Our goal has been to make high level Bible and theology training available to anyone and everyone. From our 90hr program called The Theology Program which has been in over [...]

To “convert” someone, as most people use the word, means to get that person to change in some profound way, usually beginning with and centering on the person’s beliefs. Conversions, in this sense, are happening on a regular basis, some good and some not. This is the second part follow-up to my previous post on [...]

Although I don’t normally use the blog for this, please give me a bit of your time to make a request as Credo House Ministries is in significant need. Credo House Ministries, as you may already know, does much more than write blogs. . . Ah, heck . . . I am going to skip the spiel. Let me just [...]

You will have to click on the link to see who is Emceeing. You won’t believe it. I don’t know how Dan Wallace got this guy. I hope to see you there. But please get tickets now. You know how it is. They need to know how many people to expect. Skeptics and the Savior: [...]

UPDATED The inaugural Credo House Cafe has been incredibly successful. It represents a very odd, out of the box, crazy vision to make a difference by providing a unique way to reach the culture, unite the church, and deepen the faith of believers. I credit so much of its success to two people: Carrie Hunter and Tim Kimberley. Both [...]

How should Christians engage a post-Christian, post-evangelical, suspicious generation of people? How do we engage postmoderns? Follow me here through this “Leading a horse to water” illustration. Here are the objects: Horse=postmodern Water=the Gospel Rope=method of delivery Question: How do we lead a postmodern horse to water? Option 1: Deny the horse is really postmodern. [...]