Sunday Afternoon Musings Reading with the Pastor Matthew 14 and Psalm 19 It’s Sunday. I hope you will relax and enjoy your family. It’s Mother’s Day. I hope you will acknowledge and honor your mother. It’s another day. I hope you will read God’s word deeper into … More Find Your Bible–It’s Mother’s Day
Note: This post has been slightly amended to reflect a legitimate point a reader made about the first image that once adorned this article (now removed to the bottom of the post). Which of these two Bibles do you think belongs to the person with the healthiest soul? Day 7 Reading with the Pastor … More The Tale of Two Bibles
Matthew 28:11–15 (ESV) The Report of the Guard 11 While they were going, behold, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests all that had taken place. 12 And when they had assembled with the elders and taken counsel, they gave a sufficient sum of money to the soldiers 13 and said, “Tell … More A Resurrection Day Meditation
Palm Sunday ends. It began with a parade. It ends with a whimper. And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and lodged there. Matthew 21:17 With the last verse of the Palm Sunday text, the heart begins to move toward the cross. Jesus has come to the city 5 days before … More Palm Sunday Meditation
Sunday Afternoon Musings I quoted this passage from Stanley Hauerwas’ theological commentary on Matthew this week as I exposited the text from Matthew’s gospel (4:12-25). He was relating a story about Clarence Jordan. I just might spend the rest of my life studying the life of Clarence Jordan. What a great man of God! I’m looking … More Discipleship-More than Your Church Told You
I love opening older books and finding new gems to energize and inform my life. This week I had the pleasure of finding such a gem in a devotional book. Lloyd Ogilvie writing on Mark 6:5 where the gospel writer tells us about the time Jesus did no great works because of the people’s unbelief says … More Great Quotes for a Sunday Morning
Paul Becker is the founder and President of Dynamic Church Planting International, probably the most prolific and effective church planting ministry in the history of the church. When I was a young church planter Paul used the galleys of the book that eventually became Dynamic Church Planters Handbook to mentor me as a church planter. … More When a Knock on the Door Changes a Life Forever
The world around us is the juice in which we swim. We are, in too many ways, like cucumbers being slowly turned into pickles. That is not to say that we have no defense against the insidious creep of the world. But it is statement about the sobering reality of the battle. Source: Learning from … More Learning from the Bumps on Other Heads
What I’m Thinking about This Evening “It is true that those in the first flush of faith often are given unusual graces of the Spirit, just like a new baby is cuddled and pampered. It is also true that some of the deepest experiences of alienation and separation from God have come to those who … More Sunday Musing
They are two of the simplest, shortest, and most profound of Jesus’ parables. The text comes to us in a chapter filled with parables of the kingdom. In these three verses, two parables hinged together by a common phrase appearing in both. Read it again. … More What is the Value of the Kingdom?
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