Peter was asked this question, “Who do you say that I am?” (Matthew 16:15, NIV) Peter’s answer defined Jesus. “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Those few words have turned a culture upside down. Peter’s answer set the stage for a debate that has lasted for centuries. Today the challenge is more evident as culture tries to take the divinity out of Christ and make him into an ordinary man who happened to be holy. The answer brings us to fork in the road, either Christ is the Son of God, the Messiah or he is not. The church must rise up and provide an answer in this age of information, for if we do not, someone will deconstruct the very figure of Jesus Christ. What a great opportunity we have to share the hope of Christ. We live in a time where everything is relative, even in the areas of faith. The doors of opportunity are opening and if we do not have the answer to the “why’s” and the “what’s”, we will miss that chance to be used by God. Our culture cries for all religio...

In Christian Theology, Millard J. Erickson defines inerrancy in the following manner,” inerrancy of Scripture is the doctrine that the Bible is fully truthful in all its teachings” (Erickson pg 247) The key words I would like to focus on are “truthful in all its teachings”. One of the main arguments of our postmodern culture is the claim that the Bible is full of contradictions or mistakes. When the content of their claims is further studied, we find that the accusations fall pretty short. An example of that would be the use of names in the culture of biblical times and the rounding of numbers as described in chapter eleven on pg. 261. Could the Bible contain written mistakes, such as misspelled words? It’s possible. Could the Scriptures contain simular accounts of the same event as described by the witness? It’s possible. Yet we must ask ourselves the question, who is the focus of the Gospel? As a body of believers, Jesus is the focus, not inerrancy. Even though inerrancy is important...

The journal article, JESUS RESSURECTION AND CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM: AN APOLOGETIC by Gary R. Habermas, deals with a pivotal point in Christian theology, and that is the claim of the resurrection of Jesus. In a quote used by Habermas he states, “Christianity stands or fails with the reality of the raising of Jesus from the dead by God.”1 G. Bornkamm is also used to stress the importance of this event. He states, “ there would be no gospel, not one account, no letter in the NT, no faith, no church, no worship, no prayer in Christendom to this day without the message of the resurrection of Christ. . . ."2 The content of the thesis is to look at contemporary approaches to the resurrection and ask ourselves, can they be apologetically answered as a historical event? Habermas writes, “…the major theme of this essay is to point out how the resurrection can be historically demonstrated even by such skeptical standards of investigation.3 Habermas builds his case by laying down a claim ...

COMING THIS FEBRUARY! Irrevocable Call is turning 2 years old! To kick off the celebration we are kicking it off with..... ....The Evantrepreneur! Calling all entrepreneurs!!!!! A blog dedicated to Christian entrepreneurs impacting the marketplace! Faith , Character , and Vision ! Three areas that I believe is the foundation for our businesses as believers. Come and be encouraged! Podcast! Articles of Success! Voices of the Past! Be encouraged by the once a week Shout Outs! Plus a free Boot Camp (watch for details!!) This all starts February 4th @ http://theevantrepreneur.blogspot.com/ Irrevocable Call will continue, yet the emphasis will be to encourage the church worldwide! The focus of Irrevocable Call will be to educate the church to be effective communicators of the claims we make concerning our Savior, Jesus Christ. As an educator, it is my passion for the church to have answers for what they believe in, and that's what Irrevocable Call will dedicate it self to.

For the next couple of weeks I am going to bring you to class with me! For the next eight weeks I want to challenge your mind! As a believer in Christ Jesus living in a relativistic culture, the body of Christ is continuing to be challenged at every level. Yet the body of Christ (the church) is anemic when it comes to providing an answer to the claims that we make concerning the creation of the world, to the validity of Christ and argument of absolute truths. I hope that this series in the next few weeks will challenge you to prepare yourself to have an answer. In the words of Paul, “Don’t let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and high-sounding nonsense that come from human thinking and from the spiritual powers[a] of this world, rather than from Christ.” Colossians 2:8 (NLT) To study systematic theology means bringing us to the text (Scripture)and asking what does the text say concerning a topic of interest, whether it be a social (abortion) or doctrinal issue (is there ...

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” -Maria Robinson On this 100th post I would like to dedicated it to my auntie. Angela was born on January 1, 1925 in Pearsal, Texas to my grandparents Gerardo and Sostenes Limon. She was the second child of six born to my grandparents. In 1930 the family moved to Monterey, Mexico where they resided for a number of years before moving back to the United States in the early 40’s. Angela was my auntie…mi tia. She was 87 years old and died from her disease of dementia that she battled for over five years. Last night was her memorial service and today we bury her. Yet in the midst of sorrow there is joy! First, the joy of knowing that mi tia is with the Lord! Even though she struggled to remember names and faces, she knew how to pray and sing the chorusitos (little hymns) from church. I remember one of the last times that I saw here, she was in the middle stages of her illness and in our con...

This past week I was at the gym getting my work out done on the treadmill. As I was viewing the televisions before me, a caption came across that grabbed my attention….China Unveils 5yr plan for space exploration. Megan Kelly from Fox News was going to interview former astronaut Gene Cerman to get his thoughts on this news alert. Gene Cerman was commander of Apollo 17 and the last man to touch the surface of the moon in December of 1972. What other great person would have insight, than the last person to set foot on the moon, concerning this new announcment? When asked the question concerning the United States decline interest into space exploration, I heard the wisdom and the pain of an elder speak to a younger generation. “I made those steps 40 years ago. We knocked on the door of the future, it was for the following generations to walk through it…and who knows where they would be now and what would it mean to the future, not only for our country, but also for mankind. But we hav...