Friday is for Heart Songs The following is from Kairos Journal and excerpts a sermon by Ligon Duncan. Longer than my usual post and written by Ligon, not me. This is a great excerpt. Plus he references Gandalf and uses one of my all time heroes (C.T. Studd, missionary) as an illustration. Enjoy. The Kingdom … More The One Who Denies Himself Gains Everything
Wednesday is for Prayer When the things that we pray for are dominated by financial need and the restoration of health, whether ours or a family members, when the things for which we thank God are filled with the answers to such prayers and the joy we have in those answers, we are not participating in … More Have you heard what your prayers are saying about the status of your soul lately?
Friday is for Heart Songs Unprepared. I didn’t bring a shovel and now the first snow has fallen and I am unprepared to be a blessing to my neighbors. I had taken the extra shovel and put it out to bring down to Watseka and then decided I would bring it on my next trip. … More Unprepared
Tuesday is For Heart Songs Update: This post was written a number of years ago but today I was reminded of it and thought I would pass it along. My car CD player is broken and it and the radio have been sent away for repair. Not having either a radio or a CD in … More Piercing an Ear as An Act of Worship
Second Monday of December, Christmas 2021 The Importance of the Names of Christ The Old Testament makes it clear that it is God alone who can save men and women from sin and the corrupting influence of sin: Genesis 49:18 2 Kings 19:15-19 2 Chron. 14:11 2 Chronicles 20:5-12 … More Beyond Narnia: Always Christmas, Never Winter
Friday is for Heart Songs Over the past two weeks, I have watched my son-in-law’s copy of Band of Brothers. It is a fantastic production despite the obligatory HBO twenty second gratuitous sex scene and the true to reality language. It gives an unblinking and authentic gaze at the cruelties and absurdities of war, as … More Band of Brothers and What It Means to Lead
Friday is for Heart Songs Sick with flu-like symptoms today. Started last night. Pretty miserable today. Covet your prayers. Have a lot of deadlines to meet. Can’t afford to be down long.
Friday is for Heart Songs This week I will be preaching my final message at the Chinese Christian Union Church in Chinatown. It has been a three week series on what the repentance of a man of God really looks like. This week the message is from Psalm 51. On Wednesday I posted a brief … More Let it Die an Obscure and Un-influential Death
Tuesday Musing About a decade ago, I was musing about the content of a DMin class I just took the week before and thinking about Jesus and primary commands for leaders. What would be the top three commands for disciple/leaders that Jesus gave? (My friend, John Nunnickhoven, added a fourth in the comments.) Confining ourselves … More What are the Top Three Commands of Jesus to Leaders?
Friday is for Heart Songs “… roughly one-third of the residents of Planet earth are still without a local church that can share with them the gospel of Jesus Christ in an understandable and meaningful manner.” —Global Church Planting Craig Ott and Gene Wilson, (Baker, 2011), ix. Question: What is your thirty year plan … More What is Your Thirty Year Plan?
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