Monday, March 28, 2016

Evangelism or Discipleship? Go or Grow?

Mon March 28, 2016 · By Adam Skinner

excerpted from his sermon on the four soils in Luke 8:1-15.

What are crops for? To eat, right? Not all of them,though—you’ve got to use some of the crop to replant the field for the next harvest, maybe even expand the field. In some ways, using it for our growth is the most important part. In other ways, going out and sowing farther and wider is, since without that, this will be the last year to get bread, and without food, where will growth be? 

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Christos Anesti!

Tues March 22, 2016 · By Mike Sares

If Jesus didn't really rise from the dead, Christians are idiots.  Think about it.  A man claiming to be God is crucified and then reportedly comes back to life.  His followers are so convinced of this fact that they not only tell everyone, they travel great distances to tell more people, they write about it for future generations, and then brave all kinds of torture and death because they will not stop talking about it.  I wrote a little ditty about this as a young Christian:

Sunday, March 6, 2016

Can We Talk about God?

Sun. March 6, 2016 · by Leanor Ortega-Till

Often times at Scum of the Earth Church we are the "door" for someone just entering the church. Some people are returning to a belief they once held dear and for others Scum is the first step at peering into the world of Christianity.