More Weekend Musings I am privileged to have you come and visit and interact with the thoughts and community you find here. Many of you have left comments and are following the conversation that ensues. But most people who visit blogs do not leave comments which is fine. But I want to encourage more of … More To My Visitors
Weekend Musings Got to cut the grass for the first time this year. I wish I could say it was that last time at 629 Cochise Circle but God seems to have other ideas. We have been trying to sell our house for a year. The market in our area is not a sellers market. … More Choices Can be Paralyzing
Friday is for Heart Songs Life Dominating Sins : “What an appropriate term for so much of the stuff we are dealing with in terms of pastoral counseling. ” It fit so easily the alcoholism of her, the drug addiction of him, the pornographic intensity of that one and the multiple, serial partners of that … More “Life Dominating Sins” I remember what I thought the first time I heard the phrase
Wednesday is for Prayer The Scriptures tell us that we should pray for all those who are in authority. 1 Timothy 2:1-4 (ESV) 1 First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, 2 for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a … More Are You Praying for the President?
Eye on Doctrine For about 12 years, in the classes I taught at Trinity (TEDS), I suggested that the doctrine of the Trinity was going to be increasingly challenged in the 21st century. The advance of Islam, the immigration of Muslim background people to the United States, and the lack of intellectual reflection by pastors … More Getting the Doctrine of the Trinity Right
Easter is over but we live in the midst of resurrection power. Yesterday, thousands of men and women, boys and girls all around the world placed there faith in Christ for the first time. The media isn’t going to report that. They would much rather focus on sex abuse in the Catholic Church or that … More Thousands of Men and Women Trusted in Christ Yesterday
Easter Sunday This is of first importance (1 Cor. 15). Jesus died for sins. Dead, buried, alive, living, making intercession, preparing a home, coming again to judge the living and the dead. It’s all true, wonderfully true. Believe it. Rejoice in it. Live it. Proclaim it. For an interesting thought on what it means to … More Alive! Jesus is Alive and that is No Metaphor
After years of avoiding the term, I can avoid it no longer; I am officially a Senior Pastor. When I planted New Song Church, I had the title of Church Planting Pastor, that morphed into Founding Pastor, which morphed into Teaching Pastor, and then Pastor for Preaching. Now that I am planting Communitas, a cluster … More I Became a Senior Pastor Today
Three books: The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis The Prodigal God by Tim Keller The Prodigal Sister by John Piper A past classic, a current classic and one that compliments it. “…if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.” (Lewis, 6) Piper moved … More Rereading Some Classics over the Weekend
Ours is a time that has a remarkable number of great, nationally known preachers, I think of men like John Piper, C.J. Mahaney, Ligon Duncan, Tim Keller, James MacDonald, and yet a growing neglect of preaching by both pastors and congregations. Too many want fluff and sentimental stories rather than The Story of redemption. The … More Preaching the Gospel in Gospel Denying Culture
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