Wednesday is for Prayer My mind and heart are so agitated over the Planned Parenthood illegal, deceptive, and disgusting practice of selling fetal body parts. I’m crushed. It is so blatantly evil it is hard to comprehend. It sounds like Nazi Germany. And all these educated, well dressed, smiling white women defending the practice sound … More A Call for Prayer: Please Pray for Me
This post will turn four years old in August but it is perhaps more relevant today than when I first wrote it and just as challenging to the way we live and need to live in our age. To read the post: The Apostle Paul is Flinchless.
Six months ago we posted this video in the hopes that it might go viral and make a powerful impact on the churches of America to repent and respond better to the tragedy of abortion in our country. It was shared 100 times on Facebook and viewed over 370 times on Youtube.com. Not quite viral. … More “… for you are a man of war.”
There is incontrovertible evidence that the American Church is in decline in Western Culture. At the same time, there are encouraging signs too. More churches are being planted now than at any time in the last 100 years and mutliple thousands are finding new life in Christ every day. But to fuel the good trends, … More 11 “Absences” that Prove the Descent of the American Church
Tuesday is for Prayer Read Psalm 39 We only slow down when we hurt. The rest of the time, we run around like we know what we are doing and stay just ahead of the puppy barking at our heals calling us to stop and pet him. He won’t bite. He wants to play. God is … More “Surely Every Man is a Mere Breath”
We wish that all the work was done when we feel the crushing weight of conviction over some cosmic crime against the will and word of God, but this is only the beginning. It is the conception of the embryo that if nurtured and fed with the manna of God’s word will one day give … More Conviction of sin is not transformation. Normally, it is only its initial conception.
Thursday is for Repentance Every Christian has a cancer of the soul. In our better moments we know it. In our lesser moments, we forget. And the world around us suffers the consequences. We came to Christ because we recognized our need for a Savior. We knew ourselves and know ourselves to be sinners, desperately … More Every Christian Has a Cancer of the Soul
Thursday is for Discipleship I am preaching from Haggai this week and as I studied the book I became more convinced then ever that you and I cannot escape the discipline of God in any way that will contribute to our happiness. Lord, impress this on our souls so that your glory and our joy … More Escaping God’s Discipline (and Joy)
We cannot find the Cross of Jesus if we shrink from going to the place where it is to be found, namely, the public death of the sinner. For more see: The Courage to Confess Sin—What Bonhoeffer Still Teaches Us.
Sunday is for Reality The following article from Kairos Journal is a welcome antidote to the mindless blameshifting rampant in our culture. Sometimes (most times) we feel guilty for one reason, … we ARE guilty. And when we are guilty, there is one remedy in the horizontal sphere of our lives, repentance. In the vertical dimension, … More The Moral Equivalent of Leprosy
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