I have been working on a new book for over a year now, though it builds on years of research, study and devotion. For many years, I have read the Bible through at least once a year. Sometimes I would read just to read the whole narrative story of God’s redemptive plan. Other years I … More It’s Coming Soon! The New Book
Prayer is assumed to be essential to the Christian life. Since it is essential it is something that we intuitively know we should work at it. The apostle Paul said, “Pray without ceasing” (1 Thess. 5:17). My question is, “how in the world do you do that?” Howard Hendricks used to tell the story of … More Prayer is the Christian Life
Pray with me. “Lord Jesus, we can do nothing without You. We are so satiated with our comforts and toys, and games, and achievements, and power.We are so infatuated with new things, shiny things, beautiful things.We fail to take up our cross, we fail … More A Mid-day Prayer for Revival
A Mid-Day Prayer for Revival “Make us feel again O God.Make us to know our need.Make us hate sin.Make us love righteousness.Make us hate the corruption in our own hearts.Make us a people who see our sin before the sin of anyone else.Make us a people who own our wickedness— who are repulsed by our … More If Revival is the Need, Prayer is the Means
Abortion is a tragic and horrific picture of the brutality of man. Human society is capable of normalizing stupendous depths of evil. Otherwise compassionate people seem completely unmoved about the murder of defenseless children. Yesterday, I was reading A Hunger for God, a 25 year old book and a passionate plea for prayer and fasting … More Re-reading a Twenty-Five Year Old Book
Recently the Christian world has been rocked by the apostasy and abandoning of the faith by prominent men who at one time, it was thought, had a deep devotion to Christ. Worse perhaps is the revealing of prominent men “of faith” living hypocritical and double lives. If you are looking for me to name names, … More Hypocrisy and Wickedness in Christians
I’m culling my library down and giving a lot of books away, selling others and stockpiling books to share and gift to others who might be blessed by them as much as I have. Along the way, I am rereading some classics one of which is this one by John Piper. “If we don’t feel … More Is Your Soul Stuffed with Small Things?
The essential ingredient to what? Discipleship of course. The opening paragraphs of Bonhoeffer’s Life Together “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!” (Ps. 133:1) In the following we shall consider a number of directions and precepts that the Scriptures provide us for our life together under the … More Community – the Essential Ingredient
Christmas is a great time to renew our pattern and fervor for prayer. Here’s a link to help do both. Broken by the Need for Prayer
Insulation in your house is a good thing. Insulation on your heart is not. But most of us create multiple layers of insulation in our lives that keep us from fully knowing and experiencing the love of Christ to the fullest extent. The Gospel is free but the Christian life is not easy. Teachers, pastors, … More Insulating Ourselves from Jesus and His Teaching
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