A Mid-Day Prayer for Revival “Lord, we are broken. Our hearts are so fickle and unresponsive to You. We react to every political and social interaction and change with angry fits, gossip and anxiety. We panic at nightly news, or economic news, or health news. even the weather, Lord,but are … More A Mid-Day Prayer for a Divided Nation
There are exceptions but . . . Extended Male Adolescence is a Problem Why is it that some men act like they got dropped on their head around their 40th birthday? Good grief, for many of them (most?) of them, they didn’t even start acting semi-manly until they turned 28! Twelve years is all they … More Men Behaving Badly – an Epidemic
Are You Loved in Heaven, A Pest on the Earth and Hated in Hell?(Living for Christ in Christ-less Culture) Here are three simple questions that flow from three texts in the New Testament that can be used as a ruler or measuring stick for our discipleship. They aren’t the only tools of measurement, but they … More Loved in Heaven, a Pest on the Earth, and Hated in Hell
I had just taken some boxes of books to be mailed and was listening to NPR on the car radio. The program was a discussion about assisted suicide or death with dignity or “control over how I will die.” It is all the same thing. We just come up with new ways to describe it, … More I’ll Buy My Own Ticket
It is a picture of the church. Read Mark 6:17-20 and see the American church in the tragedy that is Herod. Here’s the passage: 17 For Herod himself had sent and had John arrested and bound in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, because he had married her. 18 For John had been saying … More The Tragedy of Herod
Sunday is for Challenge For four mostly wonderful years, I lived among the farmers of Iroquois County, IL. We loved our time in Watseka, IL among the corn, soybeans and winter wheat. This short story about a farmer discussing a lush soybean field and what believers in Christ can learn from it in the care … More Deepening the Soul Like a Good Soy Bean Crop
There are so many heroes and heroines that time has forgotten related to the gospel’s advance and the proclamation of the name of Jesus (Acts 4:12). Tonight my bride and daughter and two grandchildren started to watch the Ingrid Bergman movie, “The Inn of the Sixth Happiness”. It is the story of Gladys Aylward, a … More Other Heroines Forgotten in Time
One of the Things that Impresses Me about Jesus is His Men. Peter and Andrew were brothers. Peter, who famously denied Christ and Andrew who introduced him to Jesus. John and James were brothers too, and they were two guys with problem tempers. Jesus gave them knick names, “‘the sons of thunder.” Thomas is guilless … More One of the Things that Impresses Me . . .
There is no escaping obedience in the call of Christ. No amount of tears, or feelings, or bold proclamation can replace the sure and certain call that those who follow Christ are called to a lifetime of obedience to His will. We do life by His rules not ours. Many have pointed this way but … More Obedience and the Call to Follow Jesus
I was talking to a friend today at the end of the Evangelical Free Church of America Theology conference at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, IL. We were catching up on one another’s lives and ministries, sharing prayer requests and seeking to encourage one another in a three decades long friendship. My friend Roy, … More Broken, Hurting Pastors: 9 Sources of Pastoral Disintegration
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