For the remainder of November, I will offer three prayers a day for such a time as this in our culture. I hope they will help all of us process whatever happens in the election on Tuesday. After Tuesday, Jesus will still be King. Jesus will still be sovereign. Jesus will still be trustworthy. Remember … More Three Prayers for Your Sunday
The article was titled, Why every Christian should care about the demise of newspapers, and it was compelling. “The statistics are astonishing. In the UK alone, 293 newspapers have closed since 2005. In America it’s 2,500. The whole world is affected by Big Tech’s colonising of advertising revenues, on which print depended for income. 52 … More What Happened to Journalism?
Today was a good reading day. Two books, besides my Bible were on my docket, a novel, Anna Karenina by Tolstoy and What Jesus Demands from the World, by John Piper. Below are two passages, one from each that I think illumine one another. The first one is from Tolstoy. It comes from part two, … More Destroying Our Own Lives
Today, I took a phone call from an African-American Pastor in the Chicago suburbs with grave concerns over the coming election. He had some serious questions. I love him. He is a friend. I have preached a number of times in his church. And we have been friends for almost 35 years. But I don’t … More American Christians, Listen Up
I have been powerfully exercised this evening by the preaching of Martyn Lloyd-Jones mediated to me through the short bio on Lloyd-Jones life by John Piper. I think I will be meditating (and praying on) these quotations for months. Those people who say that [baptism with the Holy Spirit] happens to everybody at regeneration seem … More What We Need to Understand About Revival
It is a request of Jesus in what scholars call His “high-priestly prayer”. John 17 occurs in the last 18 hours of Jesus life and the entire chapter is a prayer. It is Jesus’s prayer for his disciples, not just those who walked the hills of Judea with Him, but all of them in all … More Prayer Conundrums and Mysteries
Bruce MacInnes was once a student at the University of Maryland. For one brief half a semester, I had the privilege of being in the same Bible study with him. Today he is pastor in Sanford, North Carolina and a columnist for the Sanford Herald. Yesterday, he posted an article on Facebook, that I asked … More The Presence of Apathy In the Heart of the Church
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