Wednesday is for Thinking Ran across a fascinating quote from Trevan Wax on the relevance of G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936). Thanks to Miguel Labrador for passing on the article by Elise Hilton at the Acton Institute. Full article here. The whole article is worthwhile and just finding an article on one of my favorite authors was … More The Dogmatism of Atheists
Really excited about the concept behind this new video from Desiring God Ministry. Look at the Book This is a great opportunity to reexamine, reenergize and enhance your joy in studying the Bible. If you struggle with how to turn your Bible reading into a significant meal to meditate upon and nourish your soul, this series … More Looking at the Book and Mining Gold
It is a BLOOD-OF-JESUS Issue As a pastor committed to racial-reconciliation, justice, compassion, the cross of Christ and the gospel, it is CRAZY that the title of this post is even necessary. Unfortunately, such is the state of thinking about the gospel in the American church. There is a “hole in our gospel” as one writer has … More John Piper on Why We Should Care about the Issues Surrounding Ferguson, MO
Links for Life and Ministry I am away this week taking the last class for a Doctor of Ministry (DMin) program at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. My posts this week will be few and short as a result. Walk with Jesus and have fun. Proclaim the excellencies of Christ by living passionately for and like … More John Piper; Answering Homosexual Activists; Marriage Thoughts; Immigrant Policy; Dealing with Terrorism
This is marvelous and just like our God. Yesterday, I woke up with this thought, “your mercies are new every morning.” That led me to the hymn, Great is Thy Faithfulness, which I started to sing in the shower and meditate on as I shaved. On the drive to the office I continued to think … More Mercies for Troubles and Everything Else
Sunday Afternoon Musings “The glory of bread is that it satisfies. The glory of living water is that it quenches thirst. We do not honor the refreshing, self-replenishing, pure water of a mountain spring by lugging buckets of water up the path to make our contributions from the ponds below. We honor the spring by … More Glorify God, but How?
Weekend Links About to begin a very busy season of ministry and my blog posts might be fewer in number for a week or so. The links below are some of the most interesting things I read this week. Sometimes, I think that’s what I am, a professional reader. Enjoy. Better Engagement with Politics and … More Better Politics, Better Culture, Better Ministry, More Fun and the End of Abortion all in your next click
Weekend Links Extremely busy week as we prepare for Holy Week and also made a trip to Bolingbrook to run in the New Song Christian Health Center (dba Bolingbrook Christian Health Center) 5k which underwrites much of the budget for the clinic. This ministry is now about 12 years old and serves between 700-800 patients … More Helping You to be in the World, Not Out of the World
Weekend Links “Celebrity Pastors” has been a topic all over the internet. Kevin DeYoung offers some wise words in the post below and the article on Photo Ethics for Bloggers is telling and helpful. Sometimes you break the law or the spirit of the law without intending to. It is already changing the way that … More Photo Ethics for Bloggers; Celebrity Pastors; Atheist Stupidity?; New Calvinism; Laws of Logic; etc
Weekend Links Major defections from the science community from the progressive politically correct worldview. Truth always eventually wins out. Today I’m working on messages for March and April. Speaking of April, . . . just 22 days till the start of the Major League Baseball season. Even baseball haters have to be overjoyed at that … More Greenpeace Defection; Chemist Defection; Protection from Greed; Fact Checking Atheists; and more
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