Friday is for Heart Songs Bill Bauer, a great friend and mentor posted the following on his Facebook page. Bill is a wise man. I think he captures in just a few words and a poignant quote, this particular moment in time in which we find ourselves after the 2012 elections. De Tocqueville is widely quoted … More The Tipping Point has Been Reached: What Does it Mean?
Jesus didn’t say he would make us cooks. (Nothing against cooks!) He said he would make us fishers of men. To follow him means that we fish for men. A discipleship process that by-passes the start of the process misunderstands the whole process. For more see: We’ve Got Discipleship All Wrong.
Wednesday is for Prayer I am being raked over the coals by my third reading of J.C. Ryle’s A Call to Prayer: An Urgent Plea to Enter into the Secret Place. You can kid yourself and delude yourself and hypnotize yourself into thinking you are too busy to pray or too distracted to pray or that you … More “Prayer will consume sin or sin will choke prayer.”
Tuesday is for Preaching Is it okay to preach the Bible without preaching Christ? Is it possible to preach every text and get to the cross? Is it appropriate for the preacher to preach a non-Messianic OT text, preach it accurately in terms of its historical context, and never refer to Jesus? How often can … More Can We Preach Every Text without Preaching Christ?
Monday is for Discussion Less than 24 hours before the election of our next President and congress. Now matter who and what you are enthusiastic for, … how are you training your soul to keep your eyes fixed on Jesus? how are you training your people to do the same thing? if your candidate(s) lose, … More It’s Almost Over! Election Questions for Your Soul
Weekend Links for the First Week in November 2012 Great links this week. Lots of challenge. Lots of interest. Lots of variety. Jim Wright’s piece on idolatry is a very thoughtful article. The three articles touching on homosexuality will be a great help to those with family members or friends struggling with same sex attraction. The … More Thinking Better about Doctrine, Homosexuality, Political Engagement, Spiders, Marriage and much more
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
Here is the super-duper, expanded, fully revised, expanded edition of the updated chart with new insights from our online discussion. For more see: Update Chart on Small Groups and House Churches.
I hate it that I wrote this post almost two years ago and that it continues to be relevant for too many people today. I love it that the gospel is still a powerful balm to the soul of the distressed, betrayed, and hurting. For the post see: When Darkness Seems to Hide His Face.
Tuesday is for Preaching A while back I wrote a post that observed that many church planters seem to be spending more time trying to be funny than they are in actually thinking hard about the meaning of the text. It raised the whole issue of the purpose of illustrations. With that in mind, here … More “Fiction is the Art of Telling the Truth by Lying”
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