I am working on updating my book, Settlers or Sojourners? for a 20th Anniversary Edition. It is an opportunity to to make a few grammatical corrections as well as update some of the language and illustrations. But it also gives me the chance to expand the work and I have decided to buttress the biblical … More Christianity Hated by the World is a Glory
I was sitting in Panera with a young man, a plumber by trade, married with no children, who is also a new believer in Christ. He is so in love with Jesus and eager to grow that every meeting with him encourages my soul. He is raw, sometimes it sounds out in his language, but … More She was in her 80’s when she approach me . . .
No one is asking me, but I have thought about this a lot. I wish I knew these things before I entered seminary far back in the early portals of time. I did manage two of them before I went to seminary but not on purpose. I had no intention of going to seminary when … More How to Prepare for Seminary
An excerpt from the book, Experience the Passion of Christ. Good Friday is a day of meditation and prayer. I will be reading about the events of the last hours of Christ on the cross, thinking and praying about the messages I have given in the past and helping my grandchildren to embrace the wonder of the … More A Good Friday Meditation for Worshipers of the King
The shortest chapter in the Psalms and the Bible is Psalm 117. It is also the middle chapter in the Bible with exactly 594 chapters before it and after it. Don’t go overboard with that observation. There is nothing inspired about the chapters of the Bible. But this is interesting–it is a Psalm centered in … More Psalm 117: Shortest Chapter in the Bible
The latest issue of The Voice of the Martyrs arrived today. There are pictures and stories of people being baptized in rivers and other places in Vietnam, Somalia, Ethiopia, displaced Somalis in America, others in South Asia, all turning their lives to Christ. Despite the mainstream media’s silence, independent journalists have been reporting for the … More The Expanding Christian Majority
Poet and essayist Heather Cadenhead publishes a monthly newsletter about her life as a writer and mother of two sons, one of whom is diagnosed with non-speaking autism. In an article titled, “The Road He Took: A Lenten Reading of Robert Frost’s ‘The Road Not Taken’” contrasts the Frost’s “fork in the road” with the temptation of … More The Long Game for Your Soul
Stick your finger in a bucket of water. Pull it out. Try to find the hole you left. It’s a humbling illustration of how insignificant we truly are, or at least how it appears and feels that we are in life—sometimes. Today, I went to the online memorial of a mighty-man of God. He died … More How Do We Measure Significance?
The first time I heard the poem below was in 1989. It was the only time I heard it. But I have never forgotten the moment or the man who quoted it. When I went searching for it again, I found it quoted by Ray Ortlund on a Gospel Coalition post from May 10, 2019. … More I Have a Friend Living on an Anvil
While I was reading Luke 9 today, a new thought (for me) immerged. It’s a familiar passage about the feeding of the 5,000. 12 Now the day began to wear away, and the twelve came and said to him, “Send the crowd away to go into the surrounding villages and countryside to find lodging and get provisions, … More Creating Communities with Memory
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