Where’s Marty?
September 22, 2021
Newest Schoenleber Family Update
A Warning to Pastors and Others Who Lead
September 12, 2021
[Dateline: October 15, 1950] I’m reading a military history book. It was a national bestseller when Penguin Random House published it in 2018. Hampton Sides, the author, tells the epic story of “Chosin Reservoir—the Greatest Battle of the Korean War”. ON DESPERATE GROUND is a compelling read. This morning, I was in chapter 7 which … More A Warning to Pastors and Others Who Lead
Fighting the Good Fight the Good Way
September 8, 2021
Our culture is experiencing its “Wiley Coyote” moment. Are we prepared! Here’s the Link.
Today’s Question: Are we living in hell?
September 7, 2021
C.S. Lewis on the character of hell. “We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passion of envy, self-importance, and resentment.” The Screwtape Letters(New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., 1980), vii-viii. So if that … More Today’s Question: Are we living in hell?
Have Your Relational Capacities been Crippled by the Obsessions of Our Evening News?
September 1, 2021
Can a book published 40 years ago speak with relevance to our situation in a post-Christian COVID-obsessed world riddled with violence and injustice? It depends, but it is likely that if the book is part of the Multnomah Press, “CRITICAL CONCERN” series, that the answer is yes. Yesterday, I was in a conversation with a … More Have Your Relational Capacities been Crippled by the Obsessions of Our Evening News?
Great Quotes to Make Us Think
August 24, 2021
“We are always in the forge, or on the anvil; by trials, God is shaping us for higher things.” Lyman Beecher, (1775-1863) Beecher would know. His was a life steeped in controversy, some of it self-inflicted but all of it under the sovereign gaze of God. God is shaping you too, through the pains and sorrows … More Great Quotes to Make Us Think
When You Say You are a Christian, What Does it Mean?
August 20, 2021
Reposting this link because of the horrors that are going on in Afghanistan related to Christians there. The Taliban have no respect for those who are committed to Christ and many there have already died, many others expect to die within weeks or soon after the US presence disappears there. These are our brothers and … More When You Say You are a Christian, What Does it Mean?
Red Sea Rules: Glory over Relief
August 17, 2021
Second in a SeriesSimple truth: When we hurt, we want to not hurt. It is universal. It is human. But as a popular worship song suggests: What if Teardrops are Blessings? I want to copy out all three short chapters related to Rule #2 and drop them in this blog post. They are that good. … More Red Sea Rules: Glory over Relief
10 Strategies for Thriving in Hard Times
August 16, 2021
The author has heard more than a few sermons. There is a richness to his writing that is saturated in phraseology shaped for the ear of a congregation. But this is not a preachy book. It is a helpful echo of the best parts of all those messages you have heard in the past, collected … More 10 Strategies for Thriving in Hard Times
The Way-Making God
August 13, 2021
“The Lord will make a way for you where no foot has been before. That which, like a sea, threatens to drown you, shall be a highway for your escape.” —Charles H. Spurgeon So begins the preface to Robert J. Morgan’s, The Red Sea Rules. The book is an exploration of the principles to be … More The Way-Making God
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