Sunday Musings Yours, O Lord, is the greatness, the power and the glory, the victory and the majesty; for all that is in heaven and in earth is Yours; Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and You are exalted as head over all. –1 Chronicles 29:11 Christianity today is man-centered, not God-centered. God is made … More “Forgive Us for Forgetting that You are Infinitely Holy”
Wednesday is for Prayer Yesterday, one of the best devotional writers of the 21st century had a great quote from Spurgeon at her site. There she is on the right and here’s the quote: Have your heart right with Christ, and He will visit you often, And so turn weekdays into Sundays, meals into sacraments, homes … More Meals Turned into Sacraments
Wednesday is for Prayer Two days to go on a fantastic class (The Destiny of the Unevangelized) with Dr. Bruce Ware and just four students. Tim is a Navy Chaplain, Roger is a former missionary to Albania coming back to plant a church in the San Francisco Bay area, and Gavin is a Aussie Anglican from … More The Servants of God Need Your Prayers
Wednesday is for Prayer This week and next, I am taking two doctoral classes, the completion of which will put me at 80% of the classwork done since starting the process after I resigned from New Song to invest my remaining years training the next generation of church planters. The two classes I am taking … More A Very Personal Prayer
Thursday is for Discipleship The day would end with Peter walking on water but it began with John’s head on a platter. His cousin had just been brutally murdered and he knew that his own brutal death was approaching. When the news came, he wanted to get away so he withdrew to a place of … More It Began with John’s Head on a Platter
Wednesday is for Prayer We had a slogan for this at the church I planted in Bolingbrook, IL, “LIVE for an Audience of ONE. Os Guinness says it well in this one and half minute video. When we learn to live, breathe, decide, laugh, parent, work, mourn, eat, sleep—when we learn to live for an … More Becoming the Blessing Our God Wants Us to Be
Friday is for Heart Songs More from the good Dr. Ryle. Can we really believe that people are praying against sin night and day, when we see them plunging into it? Can we suppose they pray against the world, when they are entirely absorbed and taken up with its pursuits? Can we think they really … More No Finger Pointing, … Just sayin’
Wednesday is for Prayer I am being raked over the coals by my third reading of J.C. Ryle’s A Call to Prayer: An Urgent Plea to Enter into the Secret Place. You can kid yourself and delude yourself and hypnotize yourself into thinking you are too busy to pray or too distracted to pray or that … More “Prayer will consume sin or sin will choke prayer.”
Monday Discussion As we drove back from Michigan together on Sunday, I was reading J.C. Ryle’s A Call to Prayer: An Urgent Plea to enter into Secret Place out loud to my happy-to-be-driving wife. I came across this arresting quote on page 5. “I believe that thousands never utter a word of prayer at all. They eat. … More Behaving Like Creatures without Souls
I wish I had time to craft a piece of literature about the time among the Muslims of Dearborn, MI. It was great to walk the streets with my brother Karl and to be engaged in ministry with him again some fifteen years after he and his family were commissioned as tentmaker-missionaries by our church … More Reflections on Dearborn, Michigan and Muslim Outreach
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