Helping the “Psychologized” Brother[1] Problem: Many in our culture, including Christians, are far more committed to pop psychology than they are to a biblical worldview. Analysis: Failure to recognize this is like a doctor failing to recognize that the 55 year-old man holding his chest with a paralyzed left side of his body … More Helping the “Psychologized” Brother (or sister)
Bonhoeffer reflected on the surprising discovery of Martin Luther in the cloister. Martin went into the cloister to appease God, to find God, to keep a promise to God for saving his life in a thunder storm. He hoped to find God in the cloister’s separation from the world. Ironically, when God opened Luther’s eyes … More The Voice of Bonhoeffer
Friday is for Heart Songs Found this great article from Kairos Journal and thought i would pass it along on this glorious first Friday in the life of Owen Aldrin (our first grandson). Behaving Sensibly 1 But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: 2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in … More What Homer Simpson Can and Can’t Teach Us
Friday is for Heart Songs If you didn’t get your Olympic fill with the nearly 24 hour broadcast, maybe this will help. My source is Wikipedia. Eric Liddell’s Olympic exploits were depicted in the Academy Award winning movie Chariots of Fire (1981). After the 1924 Olympics, Liddell went to China as a missionary and served there until … More An Olympic Story You Have Never Heard (and worth hearing)
Friday is for Heart Songs Another great offering from Kairos Journal. Don’t just enjoy your weekend, LIVE IT for the glory of the King. A Disciplined Ministry: Robert Murray M’Cheyne (1813 – 1843) In Dundee, Scotland, Robert Murray M’Cheyne lay dying of typhus at age 29, his soaring fever resistant to all treatment. But rather than focus on … More A Short and Powerful Life and its Secret
Friday is for Heart Songs 4 Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love. 5 Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place. Revelation 2:4-5 (NIV) … More Where is the Love?
Friday is for Heart Songs Full Week of study and interaction with fellow D.Min students. Just spend the last week interacting with other doctoral students at TEDS. There are some really great men (and two woman) with some very exciting ministries around the world. Missionaries, pastors of small and large churches and every thing in … More Learning from One Another
A number of people have been writing me or questioning me when they see me about the book and its sales figures. First, I want to say thanks for your interest and continue to ask for your prayers that God would use the book for his glory. Second, the honest answer is I don’t know … More How is the Book Doing?
Friday is for Heart Songs More evidence of a deep sickness at the core of American society in these shootings in Colorado. Yet another indiscriminate shooting by a young man, heavily armed and taking lives without compunction or remorse. Unfortunately, within days people on the right and left of the political spectrum will start to … More Praying for Colorado and the Nation
Friday is for Heart Songs A Brief Exposition of Philippians 2:5-9 Peter was right. The apostle Paul’s letters are filled with “things hard to understand!”[1] If only Paul were walking the face of the earth today and could see the confusion his writings engender. Perhaps no single passage of Paul is more controversial than the … More Examining the “Emptying” of Christ in Philippians 2
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