Fourteen years ago, I started an experiment. I had left pastoral ministry two years before to raise my own support and travel and speak for the Great Lakes District of the Evangelical Free Church, helping train and equip churches and pastors to expand their evangelistic footprint through church planting and more effective proclamation. It was … More Fourteen Years Ago
I have been passing this link around to my friends and prayer partners ever since one of my prayer partners shared it with me. The sound file is short, just three minutes and 48 seconds but it will thrill your spirit. You can listen, or read the transcript but whatever you do, I hope you … More A Philosophy and Perspective on Prayer that Will Encourage Your Spirit
It is a request of Jesus in what scholars call His “high-priestly prayer”. John 17 occurs in the last 18 hours of Jesus life and the entire chapter is a prayer. It is Jesus’s prayer for his disciples, not just those who walked the hills of Judea with Him, but all of them in all … More Prayer Conundrums and Mysteries
I was 17 in the late Summer of 1972, and I wanted to marry a nurse. I met her when she woke me up from my hospital bed at 3 AM in the morning. She was checking in on me after a bad concussion (suffered at football practice) placed me in the hospital for three … More Destroying a Medical Superpower
Don’t be misled, this video is only 8, NOT, 9 minutes long. The last minute is an unintentional comedy of me trying to figure out how to turn the darn thing off! Recording was made at about 4:30 AM about a month ago so, be forgiving, please. And be encouraged. Your Bible is filled with … More Meditating on a Boat and a Psalm
Photo: Neshaminy Creek, PA, close to the headwaters Read Psalm 67 (ESV) To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song. 1 May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, Selah2 that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations. 3 Let the peoples … More A Liturgy for a Praising Heart (Ps. 67)
There are times when our spiritual senses are so keen, so lambent and alive that our hearts can hardly be contained and tears drip down our cheeks as if a relief value had been opened to make it possible for us to survive the moment. Those times are rare. They are wonderful. And sometimes, they … More The Nearness of God, The Pain and the Sorrow and the Longing for More
Some would call him Gregory the Great (c. A.D 540-March 12, 604). Others would call him the first pope. I would not give him either of those terms but that doesn’t mean that he should be dismissed completely. Indeed, on an issue much needed in our day, repentance, I would call him a genius. “Repentance … More Gregory I: Some Call Him Great
This is the path and my new place for getting alone with God. That’s my house in the background. And this is the new path I cut on land I don’t own to a pond that is not mine either. But it is a short walk from my garden and with the chair in a … More Making a Place / Room for God
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
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