God only uses broken things. I don’t know why; I just know that is how it works. All of the heroes of the faith have brokenness in their biography. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Sarah, Hannah, Samuel, Esther, David, Solomon, Paul, Peter, John, all of them, and many more, had periods and seasons of deep … More Why Are Our Eyes Dry?
Reading Jeremiah 9 the last two days and feeling a kinship in my spirit with the prophet who loved his nation and its people to the point of tears and wept over its spiritual and moral decline. Hear his heart and pray for the nation. Pray for its soul. Pray for its return to God. … More “Oh . . . that my eyes were a fountain of tears!”
I really should save this for Mother’s Day. But I couldn’t help myself. Years ago, it seems like another life time ago now, I was a young lecturer at a seminary in California. For four consecutive years, I took my students down to hear Chuck Swindoll preach on a Sunday morning and then returned on … More I Couldn’t Help Myself
Important New Post I got a second date with the sweetheart I married when she saw a well-worn copy of J. Oswald Sanders book, Spiritual Leadership on my office shelf. (Her story and I’m going to tell it.) Mike Green, the campus director at the University of Maryland of Campus Crusade for Christ (CRU) first … More The Cost of Leadership: Higher than You Imagine
What Does Love for Jesus Really Look Like? There are probably a number of really good answers to that question. Short form answers include things like “an obedient life”, “a sacrificial life”, “a life lived in passionate pursuit of others”, “a gospel-centered life”, “a holy life”. No doubt all of these are valuable and revealing … More Hear the Story of an 8 year-old Boy Satisfied in Jesus.
My bride went to the bank today and had to give a code-word to the bank, for a special transaction, to insure that when she calls, they will know it is actually her. She gave a Bible verse as the code, a particular reference to a psalm, something like “Psalm 3:3.” The woman, kind and … More Biblical Illiteracy is a Deepening Problem
Christmas was on the horizon. For seven months, Bonhoeffer had been leading the soon to be outlawed preachers seminary at Finkenwalde. He was pioneering a seminary that in many ways was the pattern of the seminary I attended in California. A community of scholars living as closely together as they could, and studying together for … More Bonhoeffer on the Gospel at Christmas Time
I am working on finishing up an index to the some the classic works of Western civilization. The one I am working on now is C.S. Lewis’s The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses. It is not too much to say that the output of C.S. Lewis has shaped the last 100 years in ways … More Brilliant Illustration from C.S. Lewis
It’s been about 25 years since an eye problem I suffered through in my early thirties began to produce what was eventually diagnosed as “night blindness”. I first began to notice that I couldn’t see stars at night. Today, if my wife and I are out, she normally drives on the way home if the … More Night Blindness Parallell
“A frightened world needs a fearless church.” A.W. Tozer Stand close to Jesus and be fearless church. The world needs you.
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