By Jeremy Myers Filed Under Written on December 10, 2010

About

Jeremy Myers with his wife, Wendy. I definitely married "up."

A lot of writing about Scripture and theology is boring, hard to understand, and once understood, makes little difference in one’s life. In my writing, I hope to change all this.

I write to bring Scripture and Theology to life.

I write about biblical and theological topics that bring life to the topics as well as to those who read them. Subscribe and let me know how I’m doing.

Contact Me

I want to be as available to you as I possibly can. Please forgive me if it does take me some time to respond! Here are some ways in which you can interact with me:

Comments – I love comments and try my best to respond to nearly all of them! Comment on a recent post and let me know what I can do to help you!
Twitter – I really like Twitter. I’m here: @jeremyers1! If you follow me, I will follow you back.
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Email – Have a Bible or Theological Question? A comment about the blog? Want to send some encouragement? Use the form below!

The Back Story

The site began in 2001 when I was still a pastor as a place for me to post my sermons manuscripts and audio recordings. Some of these are still on the site: Sermon Audio and Sermon Manuscripts. In 2007, I added the blog, which became my primary form of online communication. However, the blog also become unwieldy as I had numerous topics I was writing about. Along with Bible Study and Theology, I was looking to get published and plant a church.

So more recently, to help me focus the content of this blog on its original purpose, I started several other blogs for these other purposes:

Grace Commentary is a free, online, interactive Bible Commentary. It contains academic research on various books of the Bible. Right now, I am working through the Gospel of Luke.
Grace Ground is a free, online blogging community for church leaders and church planters. I write there about my own church planting journey. If you are part of a church and want to blog in a community of other like-minded people, come on over and apply.
Grace Books is a free, online blogging community for Christian authors and writers. On this site, I write about my efforts to get published, and what I am learning in the process. If you are an author, or are looking to get published, feel free to join the blogging community there and start building (or add to) your author platform.
Grace Blogger is where I provide free tips and tricks for ministry blogs. I am completely self-taught when it comes to blogging and web-design, and over the years, many people have asked me to help them set up their blog. I love to help others, but found that I was answering the same questions over and over. So I set up this blog to share some of what I have learned over the years about blogging. If you are a new blogger, or are looking to learn some of what I do as a blogger, check out this site.

As you can see by the titles, I’m a big fan of grace. It is the theme of my writing and my life.

What does “Till He Comes” mean?

Till He Comes is actually an acrostic for “Truth in Love, Letting Him Equip Christians to Obey, Minister, Evangelize, and Send.” Catchy, huh? I cringe when I think about it now. Oh well. Now I just think of it as a reference to 1 Corinthians 11:26 where Paul writes that we are to proclaim the Lord’s death “till he comes” (NKJV).

That summarizes this site well. Though Paul is talking about the Lord’s Supper in 1 Corinthians 11, one of the ways we can proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes is by dying to ourselves daily. When I look back and who I was when I started this site, what I believed, and the things I wanted, I can hardly believe the changes that God has brought about in my life. Most of who I was and what I wanted is now dead. In many ways, I’m still trying to fill the voids that were left behind, and this site is helping me in that quest.

My Blog posts contain a journey of me trying to fill in the holes, connect the dots, and put into words what I’m thinking and feeling about where I’m at. Also, Bible study is still a huge part of my life, and while I post some of my informal studies here on this blog, most of my formal studies will be posted over at my other website: Grace Commentary.

My entire story is not posted anywhere, but a rough outline of the past ten years is posted on Jason Boyett’s blog, Oh Me of Little Faith.

More About Jeremy Myers

I work as a prison chaplain, but that’s just a job to pay the bills so that I can do what I really enjoy: spend time with my wife and three girls, read, write, and study.

I have several articles published in various theological journals, and am currently writing a book, which will hopefully get picked up for publication.

Please see the following for more information about this website

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Jim Myers

I have logged almost 40 years as a pastor/missionary. Having the same last name I just wondered if we are shirt-tail relatives. My family came from northeastern Ohio, but I had cousins in CO whom I never met. Just curious as to your background
JIM
http://www.tillhecomes.org Jeremy Myers

Jim,

Well, most of my family comes from Washington and Montana. But we are probably distantly related somehow…. after all, we know how to correctly spell “Myers.” Ha ha.
FedExMOP

Jeremy,

I just stumbled across your blog, and I am intriqued by some of your statements. I spend a lot of time ministering to people who have been deeply wounded by churches and traditional Christian organizations. Some of the statements you make on this blog lead me to think that you have been wounded by these very same people.
FedExMOP

Jeremy,

Accidentally submitted before I was finished.

I think it interesting that God has you on the exact opposite trajectories in many ways. I was raised in “church”. My father was insistant that I should become a pastor, but instead I joined the Army and became a prison guard. I later left the Army and became a federal police officer. I was a churchy person, and I spent my life judging those who did not measure up to my standards of Godly living. I was a pharasee in a lot of ways and had little understanding of God’s grace.

God allowed me to become full of my own self righteousness to the point that I fell greatly, and ended up in prison myself. After I left prison, I was led into a church that taught “free grace” and a group of Godly men that welcomed me into their circle in spite of my own failings. God took me through a period of deep disillusionment in my ideas of God and Church in order to be able to use me.

Now, I am the president of a grace based motorcycle ministry that reaches out to those on the street in addiction, to those in criminal biker gangs, and to those who want nothing to do with traditional churches. I spend my days leading a group of bikers that don’t look, act, or smell like good Christians, and we serve Him wherever we go.

I share this testimony to encourage you to keep searching and struggling with the voids as you call them. I know some truly great men of God who only came to be used for the kingdom after they were stripped of their own illusions of who God is and what He expects of us. This in many ways is the death of the dreams that you illude to.

I am adding this blog to my favorites. If I ever get my own blog up, I will share a link with you. I pray that God will use me to encourage you in this journey and I know you will do the same for me(you already have through some of your posts).

In Christ,

FedEx
President,
Men of Praise Motorcycle Ministry

http://www.tillhecomes.org Jeremy Myers

Wow. I would love to hear more about your story and your current ministry. You are right, I have been hurt by the church…but who hasn’t?

That hasn’t caused me to abandon the church, but to try to live out the principles of church in a meaningful way in my own life and with those I interact with. It sounds like you are doing that too.

Please, once you get your blog up, let me know. I want to hear more. Thanks!

FedExMOP

Jeremy,

I will definately try to stay in touch. I especially like your incarnational ministry style. If we are not Christ to those around us then how are they going to see Him?

The damage that the church did to me was done before my failure. I was led to believe that my performance was important to God, that if I would just do enough Good things, that God could accept me. I am naturally inclined to law, as are all of us, but I was good at it. I could keep the rules, be in church all the time, not drink or smoke or do drugs. Even sexual sin did not seem to be a problem for me. I was so good at keeping the lists that I really looked down on everyone who could not keep them as well as me.

Then I found that I was fallable. God needed to disillusion me in my own ability to be acceptable before Him. I fell flat on my face. Your recent article on how to get involved in a sex scandal really hits a little too close to home. I can say that even though I was not a leader in a church, my pride and self righteousness led me to think that I was above sinning. I really believed that I could flirt with sin and not get burned. The steps you give are really right on, and though your article has a feel of being tongue-in-cheek, it really should serve as a warning to those who feel that they cannot or will not fall into temptation themselves.

In Christ,

FedEx
President,
Men of Praise Motorcycle Ministry

Dave Woodward

I haven’t reviewed your site thoroughly yet but couldn’t help but comment on one of your sermons that has helped me greatly. I have really been struggling with how best to live a principled life and stand-up for Truth, while at the same time not being “judgemental.” It’s so awesome how we know Truth when we hear it. The Holy Spirit really spoke to my heart as I read your sermon and I just wanted to say thank you for being willing to share.

http://www.tillhecomes.org Jeremy Myers

Dave,
Thank you very much. I haven’t been preaching in many years, but am glad that some of the sermons still help people. I would like to eventually post more audio online, but am too busy with life, family, and work at the moment. I also write over at http://www.gracecommentary.com and http://www.graceground.com

Jesse Ernst

Hey Jeremy,
We hope you are having a very successful ministry there on the other side of the country. Could you email us your mailing address?

May God bless you in a new way.

Jesse and Ava
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Rocky Hoopingarner

Dear Jeremy, please don’t be offended, but I believe that, it’s not just his death we are supposed to tell about, but his resurrection as well. Just as he had his disciples follow him up on the mount to be a witness of his transfiguration and an example of the resurrection, using his brothers and servants, Elija and Moses. That is the whole gift we are to look forward to, because even the world knows we have death, but through the Father, Lord Jehova, the son, Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost, along with the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus, God’s Christ, we have life everlasting!!! Praise be to our high priest for ever in the order of King Melchesideck, according to the Father who is in Heaven. May God bless you in your endeavor to spread the good news!!! Halalu Yah Way!!!!!!!

http://www.tillhecomes.org Jeremy Myers

Rocky,
I’m not offended at all. I agree with you. The death of Jesus is nothing without the resurrection. The same is true in our lives. We experience the death of many things so that resurrection can occur.

Did I say something in the page above to make you think otherwise?