Below are two endorsements to my new book, (Link below) Close Reading: Plans and Projects for Multiple Readings of Holy Scripture Every writer hopes their books will find an audience, but that isn’t why writers write. We write because we can’t live without writing. We write because writing helps us learn. We write because writing … More New Book Out Today
Covid was a great thing for some of my long term writing projects. I finished first drafts of four manuscripts in the those months of anxiety and insanity. The pictures above are a mock-up of the book cover. The book will be released in early February. Here’s the introduction’s first paragraph: This book is a … More New Book Coming in February
For all the “broken” people who know the reality of need: “You see,” Dr. Iverson said, “If you are broken, you don’t have to ask to be used. God delights to use broken people. That’s the only way to be filled [with the Spirit] and it’s the only way to become useable.” See this link … More Spirit of the Living God, Break Me in Pieces
Sunday Afternoon Musings To me the most awesome aspect of Christ’s supervision of his disciples comes out in his prayers. His high priestly prayer is the greatest example (John 17:1-26). Have you noticed how most of the prayer turns on these men ‘given’ to him out of the world (John 17:6-19)? He prays for their … More Learning from the Prayer of Jesus for His Disciples
Tuesday is for Preaching The New Year is a good time to begin new plans for systematic reading of the Scripture. In the past I have written about the 5-5-5 plan recommended by one of my spiritual mentors, Dr. Bill Iverson). Aside: Bill is now 83 and is planting yet another new church! (Read about … More How to Find Wonders in the Word of God
“You see,” Dr. Iverson said, “If you are broken, you don’t have to ask to be used. God delights to use broken people. That’s the only way to be filled and it’s the only way to become useable.” (For more see …) via Spirit of the Living God, Break Me in Pieces.
Tuesday Musings: Brokenness vs Usefulness We called him “Wild Bill.” Closer to sixty than forty, Dr. Bill Iverson was not your typical seminary professor. A gifted evangelist and an original thinker, Bill was always challenging either what you thought or what you did as a Christian. Bill impacted my life in many ways but the story … More Spirit of the Living God, Break Me in Pieces
Weekend Musings One of the guys that makes me tick. We need more lions for truth, people, the gospel and Jesus like my old friend Bill Iverson. The link below is to an article about one of my spiritual mentors, Dr. Bill Iverson, who, at the age of 83 is still planting churches. Bill is … More One of My Mentors, Still Planting Churches at 83
Tuesday is for Preaching “Get saturated with the Gospel. I always find that I can preach best when I can manage to lie asoak in my text. I like to get a text, and find out its meanings and bearings, and so on, and then after I have bathed in it, I delight to lie … More Let Your People Glory in the God You Show Them
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