Friday is for Heart Songs The following is an excerpt from D.A. Carson’s book The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God. The introduction to the excerpt is from Kairos Journal. There is so much mushy thinking and teaching on the love of God and so much of it is often put at odds with his other … More The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God (Excerpt)
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Friday is for Heart Songs “The average person reads 200 to 250 words per minute; there are about 775,000 words in the Bible; therefore it takes less than 10 minutes a day to read the whole Bible in a year.” ( Justin Taylor) When I was a full time pastor, I would annually challenge and provide … More Eat This Book and Change Your Life Forever
Friday is for History and Inspiration Every age has its own challenges to faithfulness to the gospel. Most of what inconveniences and discomforts Christians in America does not rise to the level of persecution. But all persecution starts somewhere and that somewhere often involves much smaller compromises and subtle shifts in perspective. Martin Niemöller, a … More Is it Time to “fall into the spokes of the wheel” in America?
Friday is for Heart Songs In about an hour, I will leave for a training conference of church planters. A team of two others plus myself, will be the seminar leaders going through Dynamic Church Planting International’s “Church Planting Essentials” for those that will gather at a facility in Mount Prospect, IL. I love that … More Young Hearts Aflame for Truth
Friday is for Heart Songs The air is crisp. The sun is bright. The dew is thick. Finally, Fall has arrived. Corn is being harvested. Soybean too. Trees are adding color to the horizon and the annual de-elevation of the landscape is in full swing. I have only lived in rural America for a year and … More Giving Thanks for a Crisp Fall Day
Friday is for Other Voices The following is from Kairos Journal. Oh how we need such steel in the backbone of the leaders of Christ’s Church on earth in these days. And So We Fight—Francis Schaeffer (1912 – 1984) Pastor and theologian Francis Schaeffer always sought to look beyond surface issues to the ideas controlling the actions … More A Prophetic Voice for Church and Culture
Friday is for Heart Songs … given my view that tragedy is normal, I try to be happy unless something happens that makes me unhappy, rather than unhappy unless something happens that makes me happy. Most people go through life waiting for something wonderful to happen to make them happy. My attitude is that so … More “Happiness is a Serious Problem”
Friday is for Heart Songs It is 2:12 AM. I was asleep 8 minutes ago but I am wide awake now. The train just came through Watskea and the windows were open. I’m smiling and sitting at the keyboard. The train whistle has alerted my ears that the train is coming. But the Spirit of … More The Surest Future Event in the Future of Earth
Friday is for Heart Songs My daughter came down for a surprise visit last night and stayed over till this morning. She’s shopping with my bride right now and will be back in just a few minutes. She will step out of her car, give me another hug, and I will pray for her before … More Hugs and Happiness
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