Friday is for Heart Songs Working through some old files and tossing much to make room for more. Found this short dialog I wrote in 1982 while meditating on Romans 6:1-14 during a day of prayer. Still trying to figure out what it means to die to sin and live to God. Being Dead is … More Dead to Sin and Alive to God
Friday is for Heart Songs Our “stuff” (money, homes, books, cars, everything we call “ours”) is not to own us but we are to use it for the glory of God, the relief of the saints and compassion for the lost. An early Christian writer, Clement of Alexandria, wrote about the issue. Source: Kairos Journal. … More Money is to be a Servant Not a Master of Our Lives
Thursday is for Discipleship I picked up the following excerpt from John Newton’s autobiography (An Authentic Narrative) over at Stand to Reason Blog. Newton, for those who don’t know, was the slave trader / ships captain turned Christian convert, pastor, and hymn writer who wrote the most famous hymn of all time, Amazing Grace. I … More The Thinness of Theological Reflection in Our Age
Wednesday is for Prayer We are wise to learn from the great saints of the past how to pray. Here is one of those great prayers from a previous generation that we would do well to pray for ourselves every day and for all those we love. May all your study and all your work today, … More May You Be Ravished by a New Vision of Christ
Tuesday is for Preaching “The great English preacher C.H. Spurgeon recounted one of the more unusual experiences of his highly unusual life. he was headed to Haverhill in Suffolk and, due to rail delays, was running late for a preaching engagement. I’ll let him pick up the story here: “So it happened that I reached … More Spurgeon’s Grandfather and the Gospel: A Snapshot in Time
Monday Discussion I have stopped praying for non-Christians to come to faith. That’s a little bit overstated, but not much. I stopped praying for them because I love them. I stopped praying for them because it is too easy and unproductive. I stopped praying for them because I think there is a more effective way … More Why I Stopped Praying for Non-Christians
We are a Cross-bought People: Part 1. There is great wealth to a long meditation on the cross of Christ and its impact on our identity as Christ followers.
Growing a Church that Does More than Cook Fish. Nothing against cooks, but we aren’t called to be cookers of fish but fishers of men. We need to think rightly about the process of making disciples.
Links for the Second Weekend in September (2011) Links included here will challenge your thinking, inspire your heart, and motivate your action. But as always, just because I put it here, it doesn’t mean I endorse everything that is said. Defending the Faith Are the Four Gospels Reliable? (Apologetics 315) Open Letter to Young Apologists … More The Teamsters, Apologetics, Worship, R.C. Sproul and the Poached Egg
Friday is for Heart Songs It is almost beyond dispute that the 21st Century church in America is filled with base elements and is a shadow of what Christ would have us be in holiness and purity. We are less than what we ought to be, less than what we could be, and spiritually impoverished … More The Carnality of the American Church
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