I am in that season of life when stamina is not what it once was. Strength is less than it once was. Muscle tone is a daily battle that, if not fought and won, daily, is lost easily with further diminishment of strength and stamina. So I am learning to live life in short bursts, … More Life in Short Bursts
I will attempt to post at midnight the day before for the day intended. If you are a subscriber (free) it will arrive in your email and be ready for use when you wake up. Let’s start, live and finish each day pointing our hearts to Jesus. A Morning Call to Worship Read Psalm 70 … More December 10: Liturgies for Life
Today I had an early morning appointment and on the drive to it I listened to a portion of John Piper’s short mini-biography of David Brainerd. I have been aware of Brainerd and of Jonathan Edwards Life of Brainerd almost since the time I became a believer in Christ. He has been a “hero from … More Embarrassed to Announce
Fifty years ago, Golda Meir made what seems now to be a stunning observation/prophecy. “We cannot forgive the Arabs for killing our sons. We cannot forgive them for inciting us to kill their sons. Peace will only come when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us.” Golda Meir, Fourth Prime Minister of … More The War in Israel and a 50 Year Old Observation on the Intractable Nature of the Conflict
It seems only appropriate that the eternal God of the universe, who once took on flesh and walked about disguised, as it where, in real human flesh, “very God of very God” as the Nicene Creed (*see below) puts it, would also walk about disguised in the world in the forms and lives of the … More Christ is Disguised Under Every Type of Humanity that Treads the Earth (Revisited)
Jesus was unremarkable. That’s what the Bible says, in both the Old and New Testaments. There is no physical description of Jesus, or for that matter, almost anyone in the New Testament. It simply wasn’t considered important information. It’s not that the ancient world didn’t care about beauty and bodily perfections. Indeed, everything we know … More Why Jesus was Unremarkable
When Jesus passes through a Samaritan town in the last year of His ministry, two of His disciples, James and John, two of the men in the inner circle of His twelve, two of the three men He spent the most time with, demonstrated how far they had yet to grow in their discipleship. James … More Sons of Thunder — Followers of Christ Filled with Anger
I have written about this theme before, here, and here, and in a small book, here and in numerous other places over the years. But I expect to spend the rest of my life exploring and discovering new pictures of faithful cross-shaped ministry. So it was encouraging to find the following story in my reading today … More What Does a Cross-Shaped Life Look Like?
I’m reading Steven Lawson’s mini-biography of William Tyndale, (THE DARING MISSION OF WILLIAM TYNDALE, Reformed Trust, 2016). On page 104, this sentence arrested my attention: “Having learned Hebrew over a period of some five years, Tyndale was ready to begin the task of translating the books of the law.” The previous 103 pages had demonstrated … More 8 Languages, and Then He Learned Hebrew
Mis-named or Perfectly Named? Yesterday, in the mis-named/perfectly named, Good Friday, we reminded ourselves of the price of our redemption. Today we remind ourselves of the utter loneliness and suffering of the early disciples. On Saturday, their vision of the greatness of the sacrifice was obscured by the pain of their loss, and un-ameliorated by … More A Saturday Meditation Between Horror and Glory
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