Tuesday is for Salvation Last week I preached on Psalm 6, David’s Prayer of Personal Repentance. Discussion of repentance always brings introspection. Or it should. And that led me today to think of a slam poem my son wrote. He performed it and three others as part of a series of poems by a group … More Repentance and a Psalm of Salvation
Better interaction with culture is almost impossible without better information. The problem is that even with the internet, accurate information is so hard to ferret out of the voluminous glut to be sifted through. In short, we have too much information and the much is crowding out the important. TV news and cable news is … More Nelson Mandela: Can a Man’s Life Be More than the Sum of Its (Unrepentant) Parts?
Sunday Musings 6 For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering. 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. —-Psalm 51:16-17 Praying for myself and all I know; that … More Learning to Delight in What God Delights
Friday is for Heart Songs … “‘Return to me, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts.’ But you say, ‘How shall we return?’” Malachi 3:7 (ESV) Going to spend my Sabbath (which happens to be on Friday) thinking and praying about what “returning” to God looks like … in … More Using the Sabbath Well
Weekend Musing The Week after the election I did a message on the book of Habakkuk. In the second service, I did a mini message on “Habakkuk’s First Woe” (Hab. 2:6-8) that I wish I had included in the first service. The following week, during our Thursday recording of the message, I asked our team … More Getting Something for Nothing and What God’s Word Says (Video)
Weekend Musings “A man is what he is on his knees before God, and nothing more.” Robert Murray M’Cheyne I have been doing some biographical research on Robert Murray M’Cheyne (1813-1843), the Scottish pastor who died at the age of 29 and left a remarkable legacy of depth, and wisdom, and passion for God … More What Am I On My Knees?
Monday is for Discussion The churches of America are weak, spiritually anemic, prayerless, biblically illiterate, apathetic about personal holiness and unengaged with their neighbors at any meaningful level. Are there exceptions? Of course. But the stark reality is that we are almost irrelevant in effecting change of our culture toward godliness despite our numbers. We … More Christians Have Pickled Themselves in the American Dream
Sunday Musings There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, false witness who breathes out lies, and one who … More When is Hate the Best Response?
Tuesday is for Preaching (but not this week) I am away at a conference, The Bethlehem Conference for Pastors with the entire staff of Trinity Church of Watseka, IL so my time to write and even think beyond the conference themes is very limited. I would like to pick up on the theme of yesterday’s … More Tuesday Musings from the Bethlehem Conference for Pastors
Monday Discussion Conviction of sin is not transformation. Normally, it is only its initial conception. Oh how our flesh rebels at this reality. 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 … More Conviction of sin is not transformation. Normally, it is only its initial conception.
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