Perhaps this coming year is the year to explore the wonder of God’s word in the wonder of how God describes His own people. One of the best has to be from Psalm 16:3. We who believe are called both saints and “excellent ones”. Is that not a wonder? God, through David, calls us His … More אַדִּיר How Does God Describe the Faithful?
Three prayers, for three “stops” in your day, to give your soul a door into the throne room of God. Start your day, interrupt your day and end your day by giving attention to prayer. May these prayer “stops” jump start your own prayers and saturate your day with thoughts of Christ. November Prayers (11)Calling … More Take a “Prayer Stop” During Your Day
“For worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of mind with His truth; the purifying of imagination by His beauty; the opening of the heart to His love; the surrender of will to His purpose—and all of this gathered up in … More Thoughts on Worship
Protect the Warmth of Your Heart Left to its own, all heat is always dissipating, becoming tepid and cold. Hearts too, follow the physics of nature in the spiritual atmosphere of the soul. Unless the fires of our love for God are tended faithfully, the heart grows tepid and cold. This certainly is why the … More Protect the Warmth of Your Heart
I have been passing this link around to my friends and prayer partners ever since one of my prayer partners shared it with me. The sound file is short, just three minutes and 48 seconds but it will thrill your spirit. You can listen, or read the transcript but whatever you do, I hope you … More A Philosophy and Perspective on Prayer that Will Encourage Your Spirit
There are times when our spiritual senses are so keen, so lambent and alive that our hearts can hardly be contained and tears drip down our cheeks as if a relief value had been opened to make it possible for us to survive the moment. Those times are rare. They are wonderful. And sometimes, they … More The Nearness of God, The Pain and the Sorrow and the Longing for More
I’m at a retreat for Standing Stone Shepherds with about 30 of us, I think. We drove eight hours to tuck ourselves into the beauty of these Tennessee hills south of Nashville and arrived around 4:30 in the afternoon. We ate, we sang, we prayed, we heard from our president and his wife and we … More Hungry, I’m Falling on My Knees
Just read this this morning and I didn’t want it to get lost. I suspect I will need to refer many people to it in the years ahead. The article comes from THE GOSPEL COALITION. Here’s the Link.
Read Psalm 88 Sometimes called the “saddest psalm in the psalter” Psalm 88 is a psalm of deepest despair. But it is despair out of which there is a beam of hope shining brightly in the midst of its gloom. The English Standard editors supply the following heading: I Cry Out Day and Night Before … More 18 Verses, 1 Request: The Saddest Song in the Psalter
The word of God is inspired. There are a lot of ways to discuss what that means exactly, but let me offer one suggestion. When we say that God’s word is inspired we mean that it says what God wants it to say. Another way to say this is that God used the human authors … More Know Your God (Psalm 84)
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