Wednesday is for Prayer I find that I run most passionately into the arms of God in the extremities of life. When life is utterly confusing, mind-numbingly evil, intellectually perplexing, when my friends are hurting and my heart breaks for them, when my heart aches for what is missing, or lost, or never achieved–those are … More Lament is at the Heart of Worship
Tuesday is for Preaching For more click here. I’m working on a ten messages series from the book of Joshua. Haven’t gotten to the Hebrew yet. Have just done some of the preliminary work. read the text in two translations finished a book chart took note of major big picture issues (key chapters, key verses, … More Preliminary Thoughts on Preaching the Book of Joshua
Monday’s Discussion How do we account for the fact that millions of people in America say that they believe the Bible, believe in Jesus, believe that Jesus is God, believe that the gospel is true, believe that Jesus was telling the truth when he said that he was “the way, the truth, and the life … More American Christians Don’t Believe What They Say They Believe
My friend and mentor Bill Reed, wrote this week about the disciplines of Simplicity, Silence, Serenity, and Surrender espoused by Charles Swindoll in his book Intimacy with the Almighty. Bill passed on this quote from pages 51-53: Harassed by life, exhausted, we look about us for somewhere to be quiet, to be genuine, a place of refreshment. … More You Hold in Your Hands the Word of the Living God
Over the last month or so, I’ve written about the problem we have in the American church-related to discipleship. (see We’ve got discipleship all wrong and Penetrating Post-Christian Communities with the Gospel and in a number of other places). But the issue keeps coming up in numerous posts and in conversations with pastors. This week … More “Making Disciples” is a Unitary Act
Thursday is for Discipleship I’ve got limited time this week due to a DMin class, a message to prepare and the neighborhood crisis I mentioned yesterday. So here’s a short post reflecting on the Scripture. May we all sing the song of Moses and the Lamb. Thinking about Revelation 15:3-4 I want to sing with … More The Song of Moses and the Lamb
Wednesday is for Prayer I would prefer to talk about prayer rather than dole out prayer requests. But you, the growing audience for this blog have been traveling with me in the journey of exploration into what it means to be Intensely Local in focus and so I want to share some prayer requests that … More Neighbors in Crisis
Tuesday is for Preaching This week I will be preaching at First Baptist Church, in Bolingbrook, IL. First Baptist is led by a bright young pastor from Texas with a great mind, a superior education in the biblical languages, and a fantastic heart for God. This week, he is away and has asked me to … More Admonitions for Preachers
Weekend Meditations on the Gospel Jesus put it this way, “For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? [1] … More Monday Afternoon and the Gospel
Friday is for Heart Songs . . . . . A man reading a newspaper saw a photo of birds chillin’ on electric wires laid out like sheet-music. He tried playing the birds as if they were notes. This is what it sounds like. The delight to me is that only God knew until a … More The Music of the Heart of God?
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