Tuesday One of my goals last year was to read all of Shakespeare’s plays. It was an epic fail. Instead of all of Shakespeare’s plays, I read only one, Hamlet. I have long been mesmerized by the play since my days of teaching the Life of David at the Institute of Biblical Studies and the … More Thinking About Sin and Shakespeare
Sunday Musings Periodically, hearts need to be raked over coals to become malleable and soft again. The metaphor doesn’t work except it does. Fire doesn’t make flesh soft, it makes it crisp. It sears it. Meat shrinks and contracts when surrounded by the heat of a coal fire. But when the “hot coal” … More Darkness Created Light
Saturday Morning Musing It’s a short book.It’s a basic book.It’s a classic book. And if you have never read it, you are in for a treat and a challenge and maybe a revival of your heart. John Stott is the author. The book is Basic Christianity. [I have counted at least 16 different covers for … More And This, Against Nominal Belief
Sunday Afternoon Musings Zacharias, an aging and godly priest, a teacher of the law who had kept the commandments and walked in the statutes of God all his life. He is coming to the end of his active priesthood. He and Elizabeth have prayed for a child for years, but are now beyond childbearing years, and have … More Eight Days After a Nine Month Wait
Sunday Evening Musing These are times when we should cry out our laments to God. Times when the heart is so raw because of the evil of this world’s heartache and brokenness that nothing but a mournful, tear-filled shout at God can be both relief and the path to health. The book of Habakkuk records … More The Substitution of Complaint for Lament
Monday is for Discussion “Jesus’s teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing, religious people of his day. However, in the main, our churches today do not have this effect. The kind of outsiders Jesus attracted are not attracted to contemporary churches, even our most avant-garde ones. We tend to draw conservative, button-down, moralistic … More The Impossibility of Evangelical Witness
Tuesday is for Reflection I was returning from a trip to Israel and had a six hour layover in Paris. It was a marvelous experience, life-changing for many of us including myself, and it was a shock after passing through customs to see on the monitors in baggage claim that Paris had once again been … More I Left Paris Just Hours Before the Carnage Began
Thursday is for Thinking What does it mean to know God? It means many things but if we take our clues from Exodus 5:1-23, it means at least these five things. It means that we obey his directives. (v. 1) It means we will be in hot water with others who will not obey. (v. … More What Does It Mean to Know God?
Monday Discussion All my life as a Christian, God has been calling me to a deeper dependence upon Him. When I am completely honest, I have to admit that I have not responded well or consistently. At the University of Maryland, I began to see the difference that radical, extraordinary prayer could make. One year … More “I think it’s the chicken!”
Monday is for Discipleship “Your spiritual level is not commensurate with the number of years that have passed since you trusted in Christ as your Saviour.” —Bill Hogan, Former Pastor of Church of the Saviour, outside of Philadelphia in a sermon on Ephesians 1:15-23, November 8, 1987.
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