The post is a few years old and was originally a post Christmas offering. But maybe this year, at this time, it will help you today. We approach the first week after Christmas and the New Year—a good time to look back again through the eyes of children. Priceless video from a church in New … More It’s Always Christmas: We Live in the Glow of the Incarnation
Weekend Musings What am I living for? We all have a certain finite number of relationship statuses in the world. If we are believers in Christ we are first of all slaves of God. All of us are sons and daughters of someone. If we are married, we are a husband or a wife. If we are … More Slaves Have No Will of Their Own
Weekend Musings “Your soul will shrink to the level of its concerns.” —John Piper Make sure this Christmas that you remain ultimately concerned about the right things. He is called “Immanuel” because He is “God with us.” He was named Jesus, “because He would save His people from their sins.” (Matthew 1:18-25) Who He … More Being Concerned about the Right Things at Christmas
Weekend Mourning After Connecticut Horror Yesterday in China, a man stabbed 22 children in an Elementary School. (China was hit by a spate of knife and cleaver attacks that targeted school children in 2010.) Yesterday was a new and horrific repeat of history. Today, a young man, 20, killed at least 27 people in an … More Weekend Mourning After Connecticut Horror
Weekend Musings “An hour later I was cycling down the road to nowhere, convinced that it led to everywhere.” So ends the first chapter in J. Edwin Orr’s first book, Can God—-? (1934). He has just related the account of his entry into ministry, specifically of calling Britain and Ireland to faith in Christ. Most … More How Will Revival Come?
Four books on evangelism recommended by Matt Chandler, Mark Dever and Darin Patrick. Coleman’s book is a classic and Mark Dever’s book is very good. Mack Stiles book is both funny and instructive, a good combination. All of these are short and helpful. The Gospel and Personal Evangelism by Mark Dever The Heart of Evangelism by Jerram … More What and Who to Read if You Want to Learn How to Share the Gospel More Clearly
Weekend Musings There are few books that I value more on my library (now close to 10,000 books, counting digital, about 5,500 and paper, 4,400) than Bonhoeffer’s Life Together. It is short, profound, and always challenging. In fact, I have read it more than a dozen times and I am always convicted, repentant, and changed … More The Courage to Confess Sin—What Bonhoeffer Still Teaches Us
Weekend Musings Here’s another video of the tsunami and the town that I visited. Some 20,000 people lived below the camera level here, more than 10,000 of them were lost. When the video begins, you will see a car tunnel almost right in the center of the picture. At about a minute into the video … More Dramatic and Personal Tsunami Video
Weekend Links Politics, Japan, Biblical Interpretation, a smattering of John Piper, Tim Keller and R.C. Sproul, with a little bit of Al Mohler thrown in with Michael Breen and Tullian Tchividjian—-so much to choose from. This weeks links are the last for two weeks. I will be traveling to Japan to speak at a conference … More Church Planting, Michael Breen; Missional Movement Fail; R.C., Piper and Keller
If you missed my son on NPR this afternoon, you can hear a replay at Midnight. His poem will be at 12:09 AM, third poem in the set. Here’s the link: http://hppr.org/programs/genre/entertainment. Click on the “Listen Live” button in the upper left-hand side of your screen. The show is called Open Range and is part of … More Poets Use Words to Destroy Vision So Eyes See New Things
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