May Advent 2025 be a time of deep reflection on the gospel and the reason for the season. O God,Make us feel again.Make us know our need.Make us hate sin.Make us love righteousness,Make us hate the corruption in our own hearts.Make us a people who see our own sin –before the sin of … More First Day of Advent Confession
A Morning Call to Worship for a Thanksgiving Morning Do your soul a favor and start your day reading six verses to companion your morning with thoughts of Christ. Open to Psalm 90 and read verses one and two, then flip over to Ephesians 1:11-14. Remember how much you are loved by the greatest lover … More A Thanksgiving Call to Worship
Developing a Mission Statement for Your Life(adapted from the Seven Habits Organizer) One of the most powerful methods of cultivating a passionate vision and mission for your life is to create and live by a mission statement that can become a personal creed for your life. Oftentimes, it is the puniness of our affections and … More Developing A Personal Mission Statement
Today, a foggy Sunday morning, is a good reading day. It reminds me of another good reading day a couple of years ago. Two books, besides my Bible, were on my docket: a novel, Anna Karenina by Tolstoy (my third or fourth read through), and What Jesus Demands from the World, by John Piper. Below are … More Love Idols that Destroy Love
We need help. I think this could serve us well. You will have to decide for yourself. “O God, would You bring forth such tears as would float us out of our lethargy and out to the world to proclaim Your gospel? Make us a people who treasure obedience to You over comfort and security … More How to Pray for a Deaf Nation
No doubt, this confession comes as a shock to many of my readers, friends, and family members. Unfortunately, it is both true and embarrassing. But there is no going forward without a confession and owning up to the fact that my addiction is limiting my effectiveness and my experience of the love of God, and … More Confession: I am an Addict
You get asked some really interesting questions in a lifetime of ministry. Here’s one that a friend asked. “Marty, what is the most important thing you have written?” I’m not sure if I have written anything that is “important.” I’m a writer because it helps me think, not because I “commit acts of literature” when … More Adventuring with Jesus
Sometime ago, I posted on how to cultivate the fear of God as a lifestyle. This is a follow-up to that and includes a free downloadable PDF on how to cultivate a heart for God. Did you notice the switch that occurred in the last two sentences? Did you notice that one phrase was substituted … More Cultivating a Heart for God
In college, one of the churches I attended was a medium-sized Baptist church with a large college ministry led by a rocket scientist. Literally, Dr. Bob Langel was a rocket scientist regularly putting up rocket experiments into space through the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center outside of Greenbelt, Maryland. Inside the church, as I remember, … More How They Prayed for Missions
Renate and Eberhard Bethge It was May 24th, 1944, less than a year before the end of the Second World War in Europe. The war in the Pacific would drone on for three more months after that. But in May 1944, the Allies were bombing Germany relentlessly, seeking to bring the war to the quickest … More “. . . a kingdom stronger than war and danger, a kingdom of power and authority.”
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