Day 3 Tuesday Prayer of Lament Read Psalm 56:1-13 How is it possible to write without pain?How can anything be written worth reading, that doesn’t pulse from a pen dipped in the blood of a mortal wound? The same could be said about prayer.Lord, is it possible to pray, to really pray without some level of … More A Lament for a Nation’s Soul
Christians, we need these reminders from the word of God and from the saints who have gone before. We need them, because our souls leak and we forget that we are not given breath without purpose. 19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have … More A Count Who Relinquished His Title
As an undergrad at the University of Maryland, theologian and apologist Francis Schaeffer was a buttress to the intellectual development of my faith. I devoured what has come to be know as the foundational three, the trilogy (The God Who is There, He is There and He is Not Silent, and Escape from Reason), and … More The “Slow Virtues” are Quietly Powerful
Negotiating Life in a Faithless Culture Ours is a faithless age and we live in a faithless culture. All of this is compounded by the fact that there are no rural areas in America. There are urban, suburban, and “rurban” communities. Truly rural communities are disappearing if not altogether gone. Transportation started the process. Radio … More Negotiating Life in Faithless Culture
I’m doing a year end clean-out of old files and documents as a result of a friends challenge at an early-morning breakfast, to take some of all my teaching over the years and make it available in some kind of on-going video / youtube training. Not sure I am going to do it yet, but … More A Rocket Scientist Speaks About God
A few nights ago, I desperately needed sleep and the Spirit of God denied it to me. I guess I didn’t need it as much as I thought. Part of it was I was thinking about the long drive to a conference in Colorado. Part of it was a little tune and the words to … More Songs in the Night
There are times when our spiritual senses are so keen, so lambent and alive that our hearts can hardly be contained and tears drip down our cheeks as if a relief value had been opened to make it possible for us to survive the moment. Those times are rare. They are wonderful. And sometimes, they … More The Nearness of God, The Pain and the Sorrow and the Longing for More
The priesthood of believers is too often forgotten which is one of the reasons I wrote this article for the Evangelical Free Church magazine in the summer of 2016. The church has got to recover its birthright. Check it out here if you are interested.
Years ago, I started using brief snippets of time to challenge people I met with some new thoughts. One of my favorites was to use those brief moments at the counter when I was ordering or paying for the meal at a local restaurant. One day, at a Portillo’s in a Chicago suburb, there were … More “What are You Living For?”
It is a picture of the church. Read Mark 6:17-20 and see the American church in the tragedy that is Herod. Here’s the passage: 17 For Herod himself had sent and had John arrested and bound in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, because he had married her. 18 For John had been saying … More The Tragedy of Herod
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